Photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area and California from the James E. Boynton collection [graphic] 1861-ca. 1949.

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Photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area and California from the James E. Boynton collection [graphic] 1861-ca. 1949.

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Views of Oakland include many downtown streets and buildings (hotels, government, and businesses), some showing transportation such as the Key System tracks and cars. Other East Bay locations include the the University of California, Berkeley; views of Berkley after the fire of 1923, Shell Mound Park, etc. Other Bay Area views show San Francisco scenes (including an 1861 view of a crowd at Post and Market streets, Starr King speaking); Calistoga area views; various reservoirs, etc. Many photos show transportation: stage coaches (including mail delivery coaches), cars, pack trains, the first automobile in Sacramento, bridges. Some views relate to mining: charcoal ovens and borax wagons in Death Valley, an Inyo County silver mine, gold mining in Jackson and Oroville, etc. Historic buildings of California are shown, including many of Fort Ross. Other views show logging in California, the construction of Boulder [Hoover] Dam, and the installation of the East Bay Aqueduct, with other water supply related views.

317 photographic prints and postcards : b&w ; various sizes.

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Key System Transit Lines (Calif.)

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Organizational History In 1902, after having consolidated East Bay streetcar lines for almost a decade, Francis Marion "Borax" Smith formed the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Railway. This company provided ferry service from San Francisco to a ferry pier in Berkeley, then to points in the East Bay cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda via electric trains. The Berkeley ferry terminal was at the end of a three-mile long wooden trestl...

Boynton, James E., 1921-

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King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864

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King was a popular Unitarian minister, of Boston, Mass. In 1860, he took over the parish in San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Thomas Starr King sermon notebook : ms, [18??]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145416609 American writer and clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1863 Apr. 29, [San Francisco, to Mr. Swain?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130298 King was a popular Unitarian minister from Boston, Mass., wh...

Plumas County Museum.

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