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:
Envelope reads "Borax Smith 20 mule team." Negative shows a group of men posing in front of a bunch of mules who are pulling a tall wagon of some sort. They appear to be in a park. This appears to have been a promtion of some kind for Twenty Mule Team Borax which was made by Francis Marion "Borax" Smith's company. Smith was a major player in Oakland with a realty company and he started the Key Route system. Smith went bankrupt in 1913.
Concepts:
wagon; man; mule; exterior; group; Twenty Mule Team Borax
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