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17 Picture Postcards. Description: a: color, City Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco; b: Lake Merritt; c: ducks at Oakland Embarcadero; d: heart of Oakland; e: Children playing, Golden Gate Park;...

Folder of Postcards. Description: Color photo litho folder of typical Oakland scenes. Title: Oakland, California.

Postcard. Description: Black and White view with Tribune Tower in distance, shows paddlewheel boat on the lake. Title: Sightseeing Boat on Lake Merritt Oakland California. Postcard with blank...

Photo shows a group of older men, Caucasian and African American, sitting around a table in one of the city's parks. The table and chairs are built in with a checker board already designed into...

The image shows the Oakland skyline at night, from the far side of Lake Merritt, showing the Tribune Tower and downtown Oakland.

Handwritten on the back, "Looking South on Broadway from new store, July, 1929." The photo looks to be taken from the roof of the new Capwell's. Dozens of buildings can be seen including the...

The E.B. Field Co. a commercial and industrial real estate firm had this photograph taken when they were handling the sale of the property.

A view of Oakland, the Tribune Bldg, the Richfield Oil Co. Building and a balloon flying an advertisment "RICHFIELD, THE WORLDS FINEST GASOLINE".

Scenic view. Hunt-Hatch and Company Commission Merchants Wharf. Fishing vessel. Scenic view of Oakland shoreline at Harrison Street. Text: (On back of photo)"Camera set on old Southern Pacific...

Donated by Charles Howard-Gibbon who received the materials in this collection from his grandfather. Alan Howard-Gibbon came to California in 1924 from Victoria, British Columbia. He was 37 years...

(Typed at foot of page) "OAKLAND'S SKYLINE "NOW". In 1925 building permits totaled nearly $40,000,000.00, a big increase over last year. Oakland is a young man's town."

Betsy Willcuts,...

"Lake Merritt"; by C.E. Potter; (on back) "compliments, Chapel of Memories, Crematorium - Columbarium, "Temple-like upon the hill", Oakland, CA." (located in Rockridge area off Piedmont Av)e....

A view of the downtown Oakland skyline taken across a portion of Lake Merritt, including a small island at center. The Tribune Tower is at the left edge, and City Hall is at center.

A view of the Alameda County Courthouse, looking northwest [along 12th Street ?] toward the Tribune Ttower and the Oakland City Hall. A set of railroad tracks runs from bottom center and curves...

Photograph of Tribune publisher Robert Maynard standing with a women in front of a microphone in City Center Plaza. The Tribune Tower is visible in the background. Clipping on the back reads, "...

A panoramic view of the skyline across Lake Merritt to Downtown Oakland. From left to right the prominent buildings are the Oakland Audtitorim, the Alameda County Courthouse, the Scottish rite...

The Tribune photo, dated September 10, 1979, has the following caption on the back: "Lake Merritt restoration project will be on agenda of Bay Conservation and Development Commission." The view...

A handwritten notation on the back of the photo, dated January 17, 1981, reads "Herman's Landing 4 Sale" The landing is nothing more than a low-lying sandbar on which someone has planted the...

A view of the Oakland skyline looking west across an arm of Lake Merritt. In the background, the readily recognizable buildings are the Tribune Tower at left and Kaiser Center at right....

The handwritten captions on the back read 1) "Downtown Oakland in smog, 2) pierces through smog as breezes begin to blow it away." In the foreground there is a housing tract, on 14th St. in the...