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Title
[San Francisco Bay Bridge] (5 views)
Creator
Blake, Orville T
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1929 and 1939]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2008-0958
PHOTO: BRIDGES: SAN FRANCISCO BAY: SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE
Shows several sections of the Bay Bridge. Views show various elements of bridge's design - suspension, truss and cantilever.
View 1 (2008-0958). Bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island -- view 2 (2008-0959). Oakland to Yerba Buena Island -- view 3 (2008-0960). Bridge from water looking up, showing Yerba Buena Island end -- view 4 (2008-0961). Shows all of Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco end of bridge visible in background -- view 5 (2008-0962). San Francisco side of bridge, west side of Yerba Buena Island.
Photographs taken by Orville T. Blake (1620 40th Ave., Oakland, Calif.). His parents were Reo Blake Goble and Vern Goble, brothers were Marvin and George Blake. Parents and brothers show up in some of the photographs, where the family was vacationing.
Gift Mr. & Mrs. Walter H. Blake, Jr. April 16, 2002.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
5 photographic prints ; 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001389116CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2428
Subject
Suspension bridges--California--San Francisco Bay
Truss bridges--California--San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Photographs
Yerba Buena Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
Yerba Buena Island (Calif.)

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