Oakland Tribune

From its pioneering days in the late 19th century, through the Pulitzer Prize-winning work during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Tribune has maintained a remarkable tradition of excellence in photojournalism. The Tribune collection is a major source for historical documentation of the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s. It is rich in images of protests at UC Berkeley, including the Free Speech Movement, the antiwar movement during the Vietnam war, and People's Park.

In 1995, the Oakland Tribune newspaper donated to the Oakland Museum of California its collection of news negatives and photographs, also known as its photo “morgue.” The collection, with about 3,000 negatives and a million photographs, documents the history of the Bay Area and California from the early part of the century through the 1990s.

 

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1965-1974

Description: A half-dozen men in fatigues exit from a military plane. They carry gear and duffel bags. They look to be officers and military police.

20-Oct-67

Description: Five doctors, four men and one woman, stand around a wounded demonstrator. One doctor wraps a white bandage around his head. They stand near a makeshift medical table possibly in a...

29-Nov-67

Description: This is a bad, blurry photo. Three UC Berkeley students stand on the counter in an office in front of a huge corwd of students who have filled the office lobby space. A television...

May 22, 19690

Description: A group of students, mostly men, are huddled together in a small circle against a wall. They are surrounded by numerous National Guardsmen holding bayonetted rifles and dressed in...

26-Apr-71

Description: A skinny white man sits with his shirt off and his legs crossed on a large stump in the middle of a forest. Photo is shot from his back. Photo caption reads: A young man meditates in...

22-Apr-71

Description: A man and woman stand outside their teepee in their barefeet on a forest floor. The man has long hair and the woman wears a dress which looks like a sheet with elastic at the top....

23-Sep-70

Description: Two men kneel down and look at the items a street vender has set out in front of him on a blanket. They are on a street corner in Berkeley. Photo caption reads: A sidwalk craftsman...

15-Apr-68

Description: A large group of people have gathered in a park along a row of trees. Photo is taken into the crowd which is made up of people with long hair and tattered clothing. Most of them sit...

4-Jul-69

Description: Four man in dirty, tattered clothes lay in and on sleeping bags under the shade of a tree in a park. Photo caption reads: Hippi Drome: members of Washington's Hippi-Land DuPont Circle...

26-Apr-71

Description: Photo is a close up of a young white man's face. He has a beard and frizzy shoulder-length hair. His eyes are closed and his lips slightly parted. Photo caption reads: Forest Glen, an...

22-Apr-71

Description: Photo is of 10 people standing in front of a farm house. There are two children and three dogs in the group. The people look shabby, as does their communal house, an old Dutch...

Ocotber 13, 1969

Description: Photo of five men camped out on blankets in a parking lot (?). They all have long hair and tattered clothes. One man has a thick, long beard. One man shows only his back as he is bent...

13-Nov-69

Description: Close of the face of an unknown man with frizzy shoulder-length hair, wire-rim glasses, a bead necklace and a beard. Photo caption reads: Personification of a cult: An offshoot of the...

16-Aug-69

Description: Photo is taken into a large crowd of people. It is a photo of only heads and shoulders of people of all color. Photo caption reads: Rock music fans listen to Santana as the Woodstock...

20-Oct-67

Description: Men maneuver an old automobile into the middle of the road outside the Oakland Army Induction Center. A large group of men stand behind the car. Photo caption reads: Anti-draft...

8-Aug-69

Description: A blond girl leans backwards as she dances in the middle of a crowded London street as a friend watches. Other people simply sit in the middle of the sidewalk relaxing. Photo caption...

8-Aug-69

Description: A large group of people take over a large stretch of pavement in London's Piccadilly Circus. Photo caption reads: With the famous Eros statue in the heart of Piccadilly Circus for a...

1-Jul-37

The Tribune photo, dated July 1, 1937, has the following caption on the back: "WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1--With bombs bursting in air, the 10-day National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America...

1-Jul-37

The Tribune photo, dated July 1, 1937, has the following caption on the back: "WASHINGTON, July 1--Spreading over many green acres on both sides of the Potomac River are these squares of light...

23-Apr-59

The Tribune photo, dated April 23, 1959, has the following caption on the back: "TWO DOWN--Two of the National League's top stars had rugged going in yesterday's action. In the photo above [2000....

23-Apr-59

The Tribune photo, dated April 23, 1959, has the following caption on the back: "TWO DOWN--Two of the National League's top stars had rugged going in yesterday's action. In the photo above [this...

29-Jul-76

The Tribune photo, dated July 1, 1937, has the following caption on the back: "'Blue Moon' Odom (r), Francisco Barrios celebrate." A typewritten Associated Press notation is built into the...

12-Sep-56

From original caption: "OAKLANDER TIES RECORD--Cincinnati outfielder Frank Robinson (left) at Oakland tied the major league home run record for a rookie yesterday when he hit his 38th of the year...

29-Jan-60

The notation on the back of the photo reads "WestVaco Plant in Nevada" There is no information to determine whether the plant is a steam generator or a refinery or other plant. The photo shows...

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