train

23-Aug-65

Caption reads, "Peace Picket John Seltz leaps from path of troop train. Locomotive thundered through Berkeley amid cloud of steam."

1912

Envelope reads, "Steel girder-used in construction of City Hall 1912." Negative shows a flat car of a train with a huge steel beam on the bed. Several men are walking past the beam. In the...

February 29th, 1944

The caption on the back reads "A "war baby" of the railroad is the vegetable room at the Oakland Pier, where vegetables are prepared for cooking before they go on the trains. This crew of women...

March 1st, 1944

The caption on the back reads "Forty dozen sandwiches are made up at a time for the box lunches now sold on the trains where civilians can't crowd into the diners. Even with this sandwich-making...

UPI
22-Mar-83

Depiction: Three women sit on railroad tracks with their arms around each other. They are talking with a sheriff's deputy who is trying to get them to move. Two other deputies have tackled...

UPI
23-Mar-83

Depiction: Close up of two women and one man huddling togather as the man wraps his arms around them in comfort. One woman wears a bandana on her head and holds a flag with a submarine image...

1901

Handwritten on the back of the print, "Engine that took Pres. McKinley from Oakland to Berkeley (about 1901) Engine #1292, Jerry Sullivan, engineer. J.P. Roach Collection, 1028 59th St., Oakland...

1890

Tribune caption on the back, "Oct. 7, 1951-- No. 2 at the Fruit Vale station. The picture was made 61 years agon, in 1890." Handwritten in pencil above caption, "Locomotive #2 with Single Coach...

15-Jan-39

Clipping on the back of the photo says, "Jan. 15, 1939--Here is a section of the first crowd to leave bridge electric trains in the San Francisco Terminal for the ramps to the street. Passengers...

c. 1925

Typed paper glued to the back, "Left to right---Lt. L.W. Curtin, Commander John Rodgers and Lt. B.J. Connell, heroes of the airplane flight to Hawaii waving farewell at Oakland Pier as they...

Dec-41

Printed on the back of the photograph, "copy-Historical Stock File. Official U.S. Army Photograph, 04197-2809-1/MTW-66. First Train to come through on first set of tracks at Oakland Army Base,...

10-Oct-72

Handwritten on the back, "Old Moore Shipyard-Oakland." Photo is an aerial shot of the shipyard ten years after the company went out of business. In the upper left corner of the photo are train...

10-Oct-72

Handwritten on the back, "Old Moore Shipyard." Photo is an aerial shot of the shipyard ten years after the company went out of business. Two partial cargo ships are floating in the water next to...

25-Aug-89

Depiction: A line of navy soldiers stand in a line along the length of a train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station. They wear fatigues and hold batons in front of them. Two Sheriffs are also on...

25-Aug-89

Depiction: A man sits on the ground near a chain link fence where a Sheriff is arresting him. His hands are behind his back. Soldiers in fatigues and helmets with face shields stand around the man...

Jul-34

Tribune caption on the back, September 8, 1991-- "Striking workers in 1934 halted streetcar and bus services, forcing commuters to pack trains." Photo shows a large group of men and women waiting...

14-Jan-66

The image shows uniformed troops standing beside a Pullman train car on the tracks, evidently waiting to get on it. On the back is stamped "Troop unit embarking on MSTS transport at military...

10-May-78

Depiction: A group of young men and women sit on railroad tracks in Davis where their presence has stopped a Southern Pacific train. It has stopped right before the crowd. A male protestor near...

28-Jul-84

Depiction: A large crowd sits on and around railroad tracks in front of a stopped train in Washington. Many people hold signs. The photo is taken through the upraised arms of a man who has his...

First Braceros
c.1942
1955
c. 1940s

This is an oil painting on canvas of a landscape with an orange grove. A row of orange trees appears along the upper margin and in a group at bottom left where a man is picking fruit on a ladder...

2003

This is a print of a train emerging from a tunnel with grafitti on the outside of the tunnel

c. 1960

Oil painting on canvas contains a composition of a freight train. A black steam locomotive with smokestack, bell, and a pilot (or cattle catcher) on the front end appears on train tracks that run...

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