Image / Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA

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Title: Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
Creator: Blake, Orville T
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-1027
PHOTO: ALAMEDA COUNTY: OAKLAND: LAKES: LAKE MERRITT
Shows the eastern end of Lake Merritt with the central portion of the pergola, El Embarcadero. Ducks swim the waters, people line water's edge. "Feb. 2nd 1935" -- on back.
Photographs taken by Orville T. Blake (1620 40th Ave., Oakland, Calif.). His parents were Reo Blake Goble and Vern Goble, brothers were Marvin and George Blake. Parents and brothers show up in some of the photographs, where the family was vacationing.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001388895CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2205
Subject: Pergolas--California--Merritt, Lake
Lakes & ponds--California--Oakland
Merritt, Lake (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Merritt, Lake
Oakland
Merritt, Lake (Calif.)

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