Handwritten on the back, "Upper-Tubb's Hotel, 12th + Jefferson-1879. Lower-Cor. Broadway. 14th + San Pablo-1873." This is a double contact print. The photo on top was taken in 1879. It shows the exterior of the Tubb's Hotel on 12th and Jefferson streets. The hotel was built in Brooklyn, a small town annexed to Oakland in 1872. (The towns of Clinton, Embarcadero, San Antonio and Lynn consolidated in1856 to become Brooklyn.) The following excerpt is from "Oakland The Story of a city" by Beth Bagwell, "...the Tubbs Hotel opened in 1871. The owner Hiram Tubbs, wanted to lure the carriage trade for Sunday dinner, for luxurious vacations, or even for residence, since many well-to -do people preferred to live in hotels instead of maintaining homes with servants. Gertrude Stein's family lived there for about a year....The Tubb's and it's grounds extended from Fourth to Fifth avenues between East Twelfth and East Fourteenth streets. The buildings three stories were surmounted by a mansard roof with many turrets. More than 200 rooms looked out on grounds laid with trees, gardens, carriage drives, and footpaths....Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, the Tubb's Hotel had a fine reputation as a showplace of all that was considered elegant. But it met its end on the night of August 14, 1893, when the frame building burned down in one of the most spectacular fires Oakland has ever seen." The bottom picture was taken in 1873 and pictures the corner of Broadway, 14th, and San Pablo Avenue. A street car is on the left, people are in motion, A "drugs" sign is on the building straight ahead, and rows of buildings can be seen far down the block. In the same book quoted above, this block is identified as the Potter block. "a commercial building called the Potter Block with a lacy covered walkway shows the growing importance of this corner. A turreted commercial building also appears on the corner of Broadway and Telegraph." An earlier photo in this book shows Oak trees lining this block. In the photo we have, telephone poles have replaced the trees.