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Description
Title from the reverse of the item. The photograph depicts the first pumping station at the Fitchburg Well Field in what is now East Oakland, brought on-line in 1893 by the Alameda Water Company, later acquired by the Contra Costa Water Company of Anthony Chabot. The field now serves as the site of the Oakland-Alameda County (McAfee) Coliseum.
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Place
East Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works. Fitchburg (Calif.) - Pictorial works.
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