ocean

Unis Pour La Liberte
1986

Poster is printed on white/cream paper. Poster has a white boarder with a watercolor image cenetered in the poster. The image depicts a group of birds holding a birdcage above their heads as they...

untitled (man in spiderweb)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed on white/cream paper. The poster has a purple background. At the top are four lines of white Cyrillic text. There is a diagonal line of pink Cyrillic text that ends with a hook...

Circa 1975

Poster is printed at center with a circular drawing. The drawing has a black background; at top there is a man's head with long flowing hair that curves around to frame both sides of the...

Prevent Water Pollution!
c. 1995

Poster has a blue and orange background with white text. The main image is repeated twice for each side of the book cover and pictures five fish swimming and jumping in a cycle around a recycle...

Black is Beautiful!
1970

Poster shows a full page photograph of a nude black woman standing on a beach with large rock formations and waves covering the ground. The woman's back is toward the camera and she stands with...

Quest for Freedom
2002

Poster shows a seascape with a photograph of a ship at left and a statue of a man at right. "Quest For Freedom / The Amistad Story / 2002 Black History Commemorative Poster" is printed at top....

Pir Vilayat Bhan: Pearls from the Ocean Unseen
c. 1974

Poster has a blue striped background that radiates outward from a small white circle in the center. Poster has dark blue text. It reads, "Pir Vilayat Khan Pearls from the Ocean Unseen/ Head of the...

Dive Into Your Dreams
1997

The poster has a stylized drawing of three young girls in the ocean among sea life. At left a girls is embracing a dolphin. At center a girls is swimming alongside a dolphin. At right a girls is...

Garapata
1972

Poster has a photographic reproduction of a painting overall. The image shows a landscape of green hills covered in orange and blue flower at left and in the foreground. These hills slope down...

Bring them home
c 1972

Poster has a black and white photograph of a person in a long dark robe and long hair standing on a beach in front of the ocean. The person's arms are outstretched. Above them is "Bring them home...

n.d.
Aug. 8-9, 1967
1916|1876-1956

Watercolor image of rocks with waves crashing over them. Image is abstracted. Verso side has six separate labels affixed. Lower right corner is gold label from Something Special in Oakland, CA....

Untitled
7/25/76

The caption that ran with the image has been pasted to the back: "Enough Power For Half A Million People: Nuclear companies are stored in sphere". Image depicts the nuclear station in...

Untitled
11/23/69

Handwritten on back, what is legible reads, "Platform 4... Sunday Early... 1-A with Stay same Depth as Seal". The caption that ran with the article has been pasted to the back: "...

Untitled
12/11/42

From the caption that ran with the image: "The U.S.S. San Francisco, home after distinguishing herself in sea fighting off the Solomon Islands, is pictured above soon after she was launched...

1932

Recipe booklet has a blue cover, with blue tape binding. Booklet is 96 pages long, and features recipes for preparing all the different kinds of fish and seafood found in California, indexed by...

1924

Sheet music is white paper, with lyrics by Ben Black, music by Neil Moret, and published by Villa Moret Inc. of San Francisco. The front page shows a woman in a shawl holding a fan sitting on a...

c.1921

Unused postcard showing dozens of people bask in the sun on a beach. Many of them wear hats and are dressed in street clothes. Most families carry blankets and umbrellas to shield themselves...

2000

This poster (framed in a black metal frame, unglazed) is the image of the "Califonria Statehood Sesquicentennial Stamp, 1850-2000," issued September 9, 2000, Oakland, California 94612. The poster...

c.1925

Unused postcard of a crowded coastal scene at "The Ocean Front, Long Beach, California." Hundreds of people, many of them small children, are out playing in the surf. The beach itself is covered...

ca. 1885-1895

Photogravure and two coversheets, one of which probably belongs to this image. Cover sheet A: Photogravure, Point of Rocks, San Diego from painting by F. L. Heath. Cover sheet C: Photogravure...

1910-1930

Six swim-suited bathers, five of whom are looking toward the camera, are at the water's edge of the Pacific Ocean; one of them is actually standing in the gentle surf. At the right background,...

22-Mar-72

Description: Photo of the bay between University and Ashby avenues. Small waves are flowing up between large black rocks.

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