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2006

Black plastic Frisbee disc, with rings of white decorating the center. "Malibu 110G.Model, Frisbee Disc" also printed in white. Center decorated with yellow sun set, white figure, wind surfing...

8-Jun-32

This menu has a metallic silver foil cover, printed in pink "Aloha Dinner, The Oceanic Steamship Co." Inside is a sheet of orange color paper, with a smaller sheet of cream colored paper over it...

1903

This small booklet, in addition to having illustrations of various sites in Pacific Grove, also has inofrmation about the new United States Military Camp, and information about the Southern...

late 1950s

Hostess gown is reminiscent of Japanese apparel, with a fabric pattern of stylized flowers, rivers, and mountains. The the unshaped bodice lays flat over the shoulders with a wide, obi-like sash...

Feb-71

This is a two page poem written by Rafael Jes�s Gonz�lez, printed in black on white paper. The poem is entitled "Exhortation" written in Oakland, February 1971 (first printed in Peace...

October-November, 1951

"The Open Valve" was an industrial magazine distributed to the workers of the Nordstrom Valve Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Oakland, California. Issues frequently had article about the...

August, 1951

"The Open Valve" was an industrial magazine distributed to the workers of the Nordstrom Valve Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Oakland, California. Issues frequently had article about the...

1983

One periodical, "Good News: A Publication of The Laney College Faculty," $1, Volume 7/Spring 1983. The publication contains many poems, articles and illustrations; the cover (white, printed in...

1998

This quilt Block was the third prize winner in the P & B Textiles/Oakland Museum of California Quilt Block Competition for students (K-12) in Alameda County, 1998, for Grades K-5. The block...

1971
1914-1915

24 page black and white publication "22nd International Irrigation Congress, The Great West, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Edition." Handsome cover illustration by E. M. Muse of Sacramento,...

Oakland
3/10/1877

Pencil sketches of Oakland.--1877-1887 by Ferd. Rickardt resident of Oakland 1875-1895 (Oak trees--building--Lake Merritt etc. Artists name appears in Mallett's "Guide to Artists"...

Feb. 6, 1906
20th century
c.1930s-1950s

Paper bound book used by sisters Bette and Peggy Chinn when they were students at the Chinese School in Oakland. The school was located at 9th and Harrison in the first free public Chinese...

c.1930s-1950s

Paper bound book used by sisters Bette and Peggy Chinn when they were students at the Chinese School in Oakland. The school was located at 9th and Harrison in the first free public Chinese...

c.1930s-1950s

Paper bound book used by sisters Bette and Peggy Chinn when they were students at the Chinese School in Oakland. The school was located at 9th and Harrison in the first free public Chinese...

1898

image shows large boat, with a tug boat at its rear, in an area that looks like a port as other ships are in the background. Hand written in pink, belpw the image it reads U.S. Transport Tartar...

1898

image shows large boat, with a tug boat at its rear, in an area that looks like a port as other ships are in the background. Hand written in pink, belpw the image it reads U.S. Transport Tartar...

1948

This black and white glassy photograph has a small white border on all four sides. The image is of two men (both convalescing servicemen from Letterman General Hospital), seated in a rowboat,...

1927

A line-up of East Bay Beauty Queens along the waterfront at Idora Park, 1927.

Trader Vic's
c. 1945-1954

This matchbook as a slightly glossy exterior printed mostly in yellow, blue and green. The front reads: "Trader Vic's" Tropical Drinks (the last three words are printed in red)....

1930s

From caption on back of photograph: "You can't fool the ducks at Lake Merritt. No matter what the opening date of the duck season, they start their hegira to the lake sanctuary two days in...

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