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Title
Oakland's Lake Merritt boat racing, with Hotel Oakland in the background, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of boat racing on Oakland's Lake Merritt, with Hotel Oakland in the background, ca.1920. Seven people speed small boats around a curve of the race in the lake at center. People crown the water's edge on the bank behind them. Dark trees shade a small park which separates the lake from the large Hotel Oakland and the Polytechnic College in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m6880
USC-2-1-1-6995 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45078
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6880
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45078.jpg
Subject
Alameda County--Oakland--Lake Merritt
Hotel Oakland
Lakes
Boats and boating
Racing
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
Alameda
California
Oakland
USA
Source
45078 [Accession number]
84-1-444 [Microfiche number]
CHS-45078 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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