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Title
Exterior view of Oakland's Post Office, 1907
Creator
Rieder, M
Date Created and/or Issued
1907
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of Oakland's Post Office, 1907. A two-story building with a flat roof can be seen at the corner of a street at center. Four people can be seen near the stairs at the entrance at left. Stairs lead to a second entrance at right. Striped awnings can be seen above most of the windows. A sculpture of some sort of figure is visible near the roof above an engraving on the building reading, "United States Post Office". Two men in suits stand at left. A road runs across the foreground, while a trolley is visible at right. A second building is visible in the right background. Utility lines can be seen.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m6854
USC-0-1-1-6969 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45059
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6854
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45059.jpg
Subject
Alameda County--Oakland--Architecture--Commercial
Postal service--Buildings
Post office buildings
Time Period
1907
Place
Alameda
California
Oakland
USA
Source
45059 [Accession number]
CHS-45059 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 4798 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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