Image / First sawmill in Oakland [picture] : Palo Seco Creek near Dimond Canyon

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Title: First sawmill in Oakland [picture] : Palo Seco Creek near Dimond Canyon
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Hill, Adaline B., 1868-1965
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880s
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Oakland Tribune, Inc
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 container. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Original photograph owned by Adaline B. Hill, granddaughter of Volney D. Moody, the owner of the property along the Palo Seco Creek above East Oakland where the sawmill was situated. The picture was made long after the monumental San Antonio redwoods had been clear-cut to meet timber demands immediately following the Gold Rush. Number in collection : 13.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9489r18s
copl_009
Knowland Neg. 13
Subject: Sawmills - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Lumbering - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Lumber trade - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Moody, Volney D. - Homes and haunts - Pictorial works

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