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View of San Antonio Creek (Lake Merritt Channel) below the 12th St. Dam looking north toward Lake Merritt[picture]

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Title: View of San Antonio Creek (Lake Merritt Channel) below the 12th St. Dam looking north toward Lake Merritt[picture]
Creator: Rogers, Edward A. "Doc", 1873-1960
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908?
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: From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. The photograph depicts construction equipment in use making land along San Antonio Creek below the 12th Street Dam for the creation of Peralta Park and construction of the Oakland Auditorium. The reinforced concrete gates in current use to regulate tidal flow through the 12th St. Dam are visible in the distance to the north. Number in collection : 298.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative. b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8z09r12m
copl_061
Knowland Neg. 298
Subject: Wetlands - California - San Francisco Bay - Pictorial works
Harbors - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Submerged lands - California - Oakland - History - Pictorial works
Reclamation of land - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - Harbor - Pictorial works.
Clinton (Calif.) - Pictorial works.
Lake Merritt (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.
Peralta Park (Oakland, Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Lake Merritt Channel (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.
12th Street Dam (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.

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