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Title: Homeward bound, first electric, Oakland, Calif. [picture]
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Behrman, Martin, 1861-1945
Date Created and/or Issued: 1898
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from index card. The image depicts a coach connecting passengers to a car of the Oakland Transit Co., a consolidation of early transit companies that included the East Oakland Railroad Co., the operator of Oakland's first electric rail cars. "Homeward bound : First electric, Oakland, Calif., Behrman collection" is transcribed within the exposure. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Number in collection : 256.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative. b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3b69q8fr
copl_053
Knowland Neg. 256
Subject: Street-railroads - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Local transit - California - Oakland - History - Pictorial works
Oakland Transit Company - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Source: Martin Behrman Collection.

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