Manuscripts

Oakland Wharf map

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850s.
Call number: mssHM 84372
Provenance: Purchased from Alta Book Store, March 1960.
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Map of proposed wharf of John P. Stearns

Manuscripts

mssHM 84454

Farrell and Palmer's Lightning Express on Oakland Wharf

Visual Materials

photCL 74 (232)

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[Farrell and Palmer's Lightning Express on Oakland Wharf.]

Visual Materials

This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.

photCL 74

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Map of Oakland and vicinity

Rare Books

258675

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Map of Oakland and Alameda

Rare Books

"Woodward & Taggart Agents for the purchase, sale, appraisal and care of Real Estate. 460 & 462 Eighth Street near Broadway, Oakland." This map is mounted on board and gives a detailed view of the harbor as it existed in 1876-77. MS note says "year 1876" but copyright is 1877. Submap: Bay Area. MS note: year 1876. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Newspaper cartoons from the 1880's. Grover Cleveland and the S.P. Railroad roasted.

336664

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Map of Oakland Harbor

Rare Books

"And properties of the Oakland Water Front Co., Pacific Improvement Co. and other parties suitable for shipping, lumber, coal, warehuosing, ship-building and manufacturing purposes." "For Sale or Lease by E. C. Sessions, 422 Tenth St, Oakland." MS note: 2098. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Oakland Harbor.

2098

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