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Title: Blake Block [picture] : SW corner of 12th and Washington
Creator: Cohen, Moses L., 1884-1975
Contributor: Downtown Property Owners Association (Oakland, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
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 item. Stamped on the reverse of item: "M. L. Cohen Co., General Photographers, 357 12th St., Glen. 9717, Oakland, Cal.", "Downtown Property Owners Association, Inc., 808 Easton Building, Oakland, California". The photograph depicts the results of a modernization of the historic Blake Block and Money Back Smith, the predecessor flagship store of the Smith's Clothers retail chain.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7779q966
copl_191
Subject: Chain stores - California - History - Pictorial works
Department stores - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Architecture - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Retail trade - California - Oakland - History - Pictorial works
Money Back Smith (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works
Smith's Clothiers - History - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Oakland (Calif.) - Buildings, structures, etc. - Pictorial works.

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