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Title: [Carquinez Bridge]
Creator: Blake, Orville T
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0854
PHOTO: BRIDGES: CARQUINEZ BRIDGE
Shows Carquinez Bridge probably from south side looking north. Automobile visible on right. Indian sign looking like swastika is on back spare tire.
Photograph taken by Orville T. Blake. "Trip to Sacramento, May 1929, Carquinez Bridge, Marvin in rumble seat, Geo. Vern Reo inside." "George used to use the Indian [swastika] as a 'trademark' - it is not the same as the Nazi swatztika (which goes opposite direction). He collected these insignias before 1929." Information on back of photograph.
Gift Mr. & Mrs. Walter H. Blake, Jr. April 16, 2002.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 4 5/8 x 3 in.
Identifier: (C)001388950CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2261
Subject: Bridges--California--Carquinez Strait
Automobiles--California--Carquinez Strait
Carquinez Strait (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Carquinez Strait
Carquinez Strait (Calif.)

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