Exterior view of Oakland's Post Office, 1907

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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.

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Title Exterior view of Oakland's Post Office, 1907

Subject Alameda County -- Oakland -- Architecture -- Commercial (file heading), post office buildings (adlf), Postal service -- Buildings (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alameda (counties), California (states), Oakland (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1907

Creator Rieder, M. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6854

Identifier 45059 (accession number), CHS-45059 (call number), CHS-45059 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6911 (legacy record id), chs-m6854 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6969 (legacy record id), USC (project), 4798 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6911

Unique identifier UC121362

Legacy Identifier CHS-45059.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 28.7 in × 21.4 in at 300dpi
72.9 cm × 54.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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