The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
Original envelope reads "Oakland Aerials and Vistas 1971-". Stamped on reverse in blue ink "Plane flown by Ace Darran Executive Aviation-Oakland". Stamped on reverse in blue ink "Russ Reed". Stamped on reverse in blue ink "Nov 30 1960". Handwritten on reverse in blue ink "8-24-59". Handwritten and circled on reverse in red ink "US port of Oakland". Note handwritten and circled on reverse in pencil covered by newspaper clipping that reads "THEN- A few weeks ago some of Oakland's worst slum housing sprawled across this West Oakland area. This was before wreckers went to work to clear the site for a $13 million mail center." Stamp in blue ink on clipping reads "TRE Nov 30 1960." Aerial photograph of Oakland. Train yard in bottom left corner. Mix of residential and industrial properties.
Concepts:
train yard; aerial photograph
Places:
Oakland
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