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Title: [Shoe shining parlor, Oakland]
Date Created and/or Issued: [19--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-3208
PHOTO: ALAMEDA COUNTY: OAKLAND: BUILDINGS: GEO. TURNER SHINING PARLOR
Shows front of Geo. Turner Shining Parlor. Five employees standing in front in white jackets, three of the men are African Americans. Poster/advertisement posted on wall to right of shop.
A George J.P. Turner operated as bootblack from early 1900's to about 1918 according to Oakland City Directories. Had shops listed at various places including Narrow Gauge Depot on Franklin, 14th street and Clay street in Oakland.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 4/8 x 5 4/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001391590CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-4924
Subject: African Americans--California--Oakland
Shoe shiners--California--Oakland
Shoe shining--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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