silver gelatin

c.1975

An African American man is playing a saxophone at a "Soul Vibrations" Festival of the Oakland Museum, as per the notation on the back of the photo. This is probably an indoor scene, based on the...

c.1975

A costumed Asian-American woman is playing a drum from a raised rectangular stage in the garden of the Oakland Museum.. The event is an Asian-American Festival. Spectators are seated and standing...

c.1950

A paved road at a "tee" intersection. The main road has a painted center strip; the side road enters from the right. An automobile is moving away from the camera just past the intersection....

c.1970

A three-way intersection, with one street paralleling the top of the photo, another street coming diagonally from bottom left, and a divided street on a hill, curving to the right after a...

c.1975

An aerial view of the 7th Street Terminal with five cargo ships tied up to the pier. Stacks of cargo containers are on the northwest side of the terminal. On the right side of the photo is the U...

c.1975

A view of the exterior of the passenger entrance to the Oakland Airport, featuring the repeated arch canopy over the glass entry doors. Two taxicab and one private automobile are parked at the...

c.1975

An interior view of the deserted two-storey lobby of the Oakland Airport. An up escalator leading to the mezzanine is at the far left of the photo. Three banks of seats are in the foreground at...

c.1975

Oakland's 7th Avenue Terminal, seen from the air, projects into San Francisco Bay like a tadpole. It roughly parallels the Bay Bridge (not shown), which would be off to the right of the photo....

c.1975

A view of jack London Square looking down at Broadway [?] and the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks on 2nd Street. A scattering of cars is parked on the streets. A large elevated sign on the...

c.1975

A view of the 2nd and Franklin corner in the jack London Square area. Southern Pacific Railroad tracks are in the foreground. At center, there is the one-storey Pier 1 Import shop. The other...

c.1924

This scene is in all probability near the Pleasant Valley junction of the Key System's Piedmont extension (See Demorro, p.58-59 for text). In this photo, two sets of tracks are being laid,...

c.1905

The streetcar in this photo is a double decker. It is electricity driven, at a time, circa 1900, when horse cars were being replaced by electric cars in Oakland. The photo shows single truck...

c.1945

Streetcar # 271 was one of 18 streetcars purchased from Lehigh Valley Traction Co. in 1901, by the Oakland Traction Co, which later was incorporated into the Key System in 1923. #271's original #...

1869

This is a photo of the SP depot in downtown Oakland at 7th and Broadway in 1869. A notation on the back of the photo reads "Old depot at 7th [&] Broadway up to 1880." It is a busy scene; the...

c.1905

This photo of Oakland Traction Co. streetcar # 45 is the same as the one in Demorro, p. 243, taken at Adeline and Ward Sts. in Berkeley. Oakland Traction was incorporated in 1906, and after a...

1970-1975

This is a view of the exterior of the BART Pleasant Hill train station. The photo is taken from driveway level. The station is two-storey, with fare gates at ground level. The tracks (not shown...

1975

The scene is the celebration of the Golden State Warriors National Basketball Association's championship in 1975. The location is probably inside the Oakland Coliseum. An unidentified man is...

1975

In this scne the caoch of the Golden State Warriors championship baksetball team, Al Attles, is being addressed by an unidentified man with his back to the camera. The coach, wearing a leisure...

1970-1975

This is the interior of the ground level of the Lafayette BART station; the photo shows the fare gate, station agents' booth, and a set of stairs leading up to the train platform. A typewritten...

1975

The scene is inside the Oakland Coliseum where members of the Warriors Championship team and their spouses or girl friends are standing in conversational groups in an otherwise empty room,...

1975

the scene is outside the Oakland Coliseum, taken from across the freeway. One half of the Coliseum is shown at right. There is a large billboard at center, facing south, whose sign reads "NBA...

1975

The scene is inside the Coliseum, and the event is the celebration of the Warriors basketball team's National Basketball Association championship in 1975. The focus of the photo is an array of...

1970-1975

The focus of this photo is the Orinda BART Station in Orinda, shown at center, on the far side of a parking lot. One pick-up truck and two trailers (probably used as constrution site offices] are...

1970-1975

One BART train is leaving and one is departing the BART Concord station in preparation for the opening of the Concord line. A typewritten note is affixed to the back of the photo; it reads " BART...

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