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Oakland Districts Collection II

Owning Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center

About this Collection

This collection has a sampling of photographs of Oakland districts from the 1880s to the 1970s. The districts included: Allendale, Broadway Terrace, Claremont, Fairfax, Fruitvale, Golden Gate, Hoover-Foster, Kennedy Tract, Melrose, Peralta Heights, Redwood Heights, and Temescal. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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68 items found in this collection

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Aerial view, looking north from around East Creek Slough, of the Nimitz …
Aerial view, looking south from around 16th Avenue, of the Nimitz Freeway …
Aerial view of Dimond Canyon and surounding, still largely undeveloped, neighborhoods in …
Aerial view of upper Dimond Canyon and surounding, still largely undeveloped, neighborhoods, …
Boat landing on Lake Merritt at 18th Street and Lakeshore Avenue in …
Bonus Foods Market on Broadway between 45th and 49th Streets in the …
Cleveland Cascade viewed from Lakeshore Boulevard in the Peralta Heights district of …
College Pines Tract Office in undeveloped woods on Broadway Terrace east of …
Corner storefront in Oakland, California's Chinatown with bales and baskets in view …
Court and garden of the Shaffer home adjoining the Claremont Heights tract …
Courtland Avenue looking toward Foothill Boulevard in the Fairfax district of Oakland, …
Delivery trucks lined up in front of G. Bonora Co., wholesale fruit …
East 14th Street (later International Boulevard) at Fruitvale Avenue decorated for the …
Electric street cars, looking north, at 13th Avenue and East 16th Streets …
Electric streetcar heading south on 38th Avenue at Allendale Avenue in the …
Employees of cement contractor Otto Schubert pose at a worksite in front …
A family sits in their automobile on East 17th Street, looking west …
Haddon Hill, largely undeveloped, viewed from across Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. …
Hawthorne Avenue looking east from Telegraph Avenue in the Pill Hill district …
Homes in the still largely undeveloped 4th Avenue Heights tract looking towards …
Italian band from the Balill'a Lodge of the Knights of Pythias pose …
Klinkner Drugs and Sprouse Reitz Co., corner of San Pablo Avenue and …
Lake Merritt viewed from Lakeshore Avenue and Hanover Street in the Peralta …
Looking at houses on Courtland Avenue from the corner of High Street …
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