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1940-1970
This appears to be a spirit house, composed of wooden sticks and fronds, lashed together with vine. Ms. Pannett had received the model on a trip to the reservation, when she was ill with cancer... |
1900-1940
Measuring stick. Description: for Chinese scales, teak wood (?), tiny brass inlay for design and divisions; used by merchants commonly, from Oakland Chinatown. (D. Peterson 2/79) Date: E... |
1661-1723
Sweet meat dish, buisquit porcelain, 1661-1723. The dish is made of an octagon tray with scalloped edges. Inside rests a central octagon dish and 8 dishes that fit around it, covering the... |
c. 1938
Docent Don De Coss donated pencil which was used by his mother Alma De Coss when she worked on the election board in Oakland in 1938. The special pencils were distributed to election workers to... |
c.1940
Baseball bat used by Maurice Van Robays when he played for the Oakland Oaks in the 1940s. Van Robays was a teammate of Billy Martin and played under Casey Stengel |
c. 1900
The washing machine has its name Pedigo Perfection Washer stencilled on wood edge of tub top. Original black stencilled designs run along the legs. The washer has a wooden insert which swings back... |
June 30, 2002
This headdress is made on a base created from a straw hat and styrofoam blocks. These were then covered in blue, white, and yellow feathers and feather boas. Headdress also features curled... |
c. 1970
A calendar would have been mounted on this board. This was a gift to the donor, Anne Vu when she was a teacher in Vietnam. November 20th in Vietnam is national teacher day and students bring... |
1950-70
A handwritten certificate of appreciation is matted with orange-yellow strips of paper and set on a background of light blue paper. These have then been laminated onto a large wooden plaque. The... |
c. 1940 - 1950
Figure of a "Brownie" from Playland-at-the-Beach, San Francisco. Brownies are fictional characters created by Palmer Cox in the 1890's. They were very tiny creatures - dwarfed by flowers, using... |
1997
"David Risling, Sr., once told Brian Tripp a story about hydraulic mining in Northwest California in the area of a traditional Karuk village. He described miners blasting down the hillside in... |
Photograph, obsequies of Joaquin Miller. Scattering the ashes on the pyre, "The Hights," Oakland, Calif. d Public Library, 1961 Cincinnatus Heine Miller , known more popularly as... |
Photograph, of Rev. Henry Durant. Framed picture. Bibliography: The Beginnings of Oakland, California A.U.C. by Peter Thomas Conmy; Oakland Public Library, 1961 Henry Durant came to... |
1900-1930
One "Travelogue," a trunk with a projector and all the equipment to project a slide show with slides of famous sights from around the world, artfifacts are labeled 2010.26.1.1-2010.26.1.256. ... |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
The black negative case holds 4x5 film negatives for a view camera. There is exposed film in the case, when printed (10/20/2003) no image was present. |
1927
Framed photograph of the interior of the ferry boat "Peralta". Depicts rows of bench seats and wooden ceiling beams/molding, light fixtures, and windows of cabins. (DDR) |
23-Mar-27
According to donor (Anne Ellinwood) in May of 2001, members of the group in the photograph are related to late San Francisco Mayer Rolph, then later Governor of California. The photo is of the... |
1862-1867
Framed portrait of Mayor Horace W. Carpentier, 1854. Oakland's first mayor, who served during 1854. (H Jones, 1/2001) This may be watercolor on paper or possibly on a thin piece of ivory;... |
Circa 1920
Haida carved wood food bowl, of oval form with upswept ends, relief-carved with two frogs on the bottom, inlaid with row of white glass beads in a coved channel inside the rim, the top edge inlaid... |