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Title: First Fitchburg pumping plant [picture]
Creator: Rodolph, Frank B. (Frank Bequette), 1843-1923
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
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 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.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5s2025wc
copl_188
Subject: Pumping stations - California - Alameda County - Pictorial works
Artesian wells - California - Alameda County - Pictorial works
Water-supply - California - History - Pictorial works
Groundwater - California - Alameda County - Pictorial works
Alameda Water Company - History - Pictorial works
Contra Costa Water Company - History - Pictorial works
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum - History - Pictorial works
Place: East Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Fitchburg (Calif.) - Pictorial works.

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