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| Downtown Oakland
[ ca. 1915 ] |
Downtown Oakland
[ 1877 ] |
Downtown Oakland
[ ca. 1915 ] |
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| Lake Merritt [ ca. 1910 ] |
Lake Merritt [ ca. 1910 ] |
Lake Merritt [ ca. 1930's ] |
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| HG Prince Employees [ 1918
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Chevrolet Plant [ 1916 ] |
Downtown Oakland [ ca. 1915
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| These nine panoramic photographs of Oakland
from the California Collections at the Oakland Museum of California
were created between 1877 and the 1930s. Click on an image to begin
your travels back in time; stand where the photographer stood and
look all around you. |
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| Panoramic photographs were produced by several
types of cameras. In some cases, such as the image of Oakland in 1877,
the panorama is formed of individual images mounted on a long linen
backing to create the panorama effect. By 1890, the invention of flexible
photographic film allowed a camera mounted on a turntable, often turned
by clockwork gears, to capture a complete panoramic image that could
be developed as a single photograph, such as the image of Lake Merritt
from the 1930s. |
( See The Illustrated History of the
Camera from 1839 to the Present by Michel Auer, New York Graphic
Society ) |
These panoramas require the Apple QuickTime plugin. Click
here to download.
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