Selections from the collections of the Oakland History Room and the maps division of the Oakland Public Library 1842-1967 Circa 1885-1930

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Selections from the collections of the Oakland History Room and the maps division of the Oakland Public Library 1842-1967 Circa 1885-1930

The collections of the Oakland History Room include images, manuscript materials, photomechanical prints, news clippings, ephemeral items, programs, sheet music, monographs and serials and archival materials in audio-visual and digital formats that document the history of Oakland, Emeryville and Piedmont, Calif. and the metropolitan East Bay area of Northern California. The maps division of the collections of the Oakland Public Library holds an extensive run of historic maps of the Oakland area dating from 1852-present.

200 items; 199 online items

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656535

Oakland Public Library

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Rodolph, Frank B. (Frank Bequette), 1843-1923.

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Chabot, Anthony, 1813-1888

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Rogers, Edward A., 1873-1960

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Oakland Public Library (Calif.). Art, Music, History & Literature Division

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Realty Union Investment Company.

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Oakland Public Library. Oakland History Room (Oakland, Calif.)

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Key System Transit Lines

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Peralta family

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Frost, Jack, 1879-1947

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Port of Oakland

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Mathews, Lucia Kleinhans, 1870-1955

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Realty Syndicate Company.

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Wickham Havens, Inc.

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Metropolitan Oakland International Airport (Calif.)

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United States. District Court (California : Northern District). Land case. 100.

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Chase, Moses, 1808-1891.

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Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ina Coolbrith was born as Josephine Donna Smith (niece of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith) in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841or 1842 (accounts differ). Following her father's death, which roughly coincided with the Mormons' expulsion from Illinois, Josephine's mother took her to St. Louis and married William Pickett. In 1850 the family ...

Mathews, Arthur Frank, 1860-1945

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Oakland Unified School District

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London, Jack, 1876-1919

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Gamble, James, 1827-1905

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Hamilton, L. (Laurentine), 1827-1882

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Laurentine Hamilton was born in Dix, New York in 1826. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1850 and then from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1853. He was ordained by the New School Presbytery of Geneva the following year and served in western New York. He was commissioned as a home missionary of the New School Assembly in Columbia, California and served there from 1855 to 1859. He moved to San Jose in 1859 to preach at the First Presbyterian Church of San Jose and was also a school superintend...

Oakland Chamber of Commerce (Calif.)

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