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house miniature spirit house Chumash 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...	measuring stick scale China \| Chinese 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...
dish tray China \| Chinese 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...	pencil Carlisle 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...
Big Leaguer Calvin Smiths Shop 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	washing machine C. J. Clark Manufacturing Agency \| Oakland 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...
headdress Brent Kamrath 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...	plaque Bachljen 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...
American Legion certificate of appreciation to E. Burcovich Furniture Company. American Legion 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...	Playland Brownie Palmer Cox 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...
He Thought It Was the End of the World Brian D. Tripp 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...	frame photograph 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...
frame photograph 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...	The Ford E. Samuel Travelogues 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. ...
negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.	negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.
negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.	negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.
negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.	negative case The Folmer Graflex Corporation 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.
photograph Moore Dry Dock Co. 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)	photograph Moore Dry Dock Co. 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...
frame painting photograph Fredricks & Co. \| New York, NY 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;...	bowl Haida 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...