Oakland Collection

Theo Gier, Pure California Wines & Brandies
Compliments of Theo Gier, Pure California Wines & Brandies, as seen at the International Exposition in San Francisco, USA, 1894. 1894

Uncle Toms Cabin
Reverse of a promotional postcard for C. H. Smiths Double Mammoth Uncle Toms Cabin Co. touring to Oakland Garden, 5th September 1881 showing the productions various spectacles. Date: 1881

St. Julien

San Fansisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
Illustration of San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge, at the time the largest bridge system in the world at 8.25 miles long

Forbes Field Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Forbes Field Stadium, Schenley Park, Oakland District, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team. Date: 1941

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120 (BuAer number 33512), based at Oakland Naval Air Station in California, being used as a recruitment billboard for the US Naval Reserve

Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay and a neighborhood in the City and County of San Francisco

McDonnell Douglas C-9B Skytrain II 159120
United States Navy - McDonnell Douglas C-9B Skytrain II 159120 City of Oakland (MSN 47586 - 707), of VR-55, on approach to RAF Mildenhall on 25 March 1991. Date: 1991

Dassault Falcon 20DC N27FE (msn 207), of Federal Express at Oakland airport on 2 June 1974 Date: 1974

Vintage 19th century photograph: Oakland Ferry, foot of Market Street, San Francisco, California. Taber studio photo

Railroad, Oakland and pier USA
19th century vintage photograph: Railroad, Oakland and pier, USA

Sikorsky S-62A N975, of San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines (aka SFO Helicopter Airlines and SFO Helicopter). Date: circa 1965

Aircraft Engineering Corporation Ace K-1 N69097. This single-seat biplane, powered by a 40hp Ace engine; was designed by Alexander Klemin (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, NYU) and N W Dalton

Neilson NC-1 Golden Bear - aka Coach NC883E
Neilson NC-1 Golden Bear (aka Coach) X883E (later NC883E), built by the (Thomass & Duncan S) Neilsen Steel Aircraft Co, Berkeley CA. at Berkeley airport around the time of its first flight

Breese 5 - NC914 - Aloha
Breese 5 NC914 (msn 3) Aloha, a Dole racer entered by Jack Northrop and flown by Martin Jensen. The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was an air race across the Pacific Ocean from Oakland

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-94C Starfire 51-5594
United States Air Force - Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire 51-5594 (msn 880-8190), of the 84h Fighter Interceptor Squadron, at an air-show on Naval Air Station Oakland

Fleet Super Bonanza N174SV
Fleet Super V Bonanza N174SV (msn SV115) (donor aircraft msn D-422 built in 1947). In the late 50s Bay Aviation (formerly Oakland Airmotive produced a twin-engined conversion of the V-tailed Beech)

Jet Commander N89B at Oakland Date: 1967

Place Name Large Letter Card - Oakland, California Date: 1943

Oakland on east side of San Francisco Bay, California, USA
City of Oakland on the east side of San Francisco Bay, in California, USA. Looking North from the junction of San Pablo Avenue, Fourteenth Street and Broadway

Mystery Airship 1896
The airship seen over San Francisco differs from those seen at Sacramento and Oakland by having wings or fins and a birdlike tail : it, too, uses a searchlight

Downtown view of Oakland, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Jack Londons Rendezvous, Oakland, California, USA
Jack Londons Rendezvous, Heinolds First and Last Chance Bar, Webster Street, Oakland, San Francisco, California, USA, built from the remains of an old whaling ship. Date: circa 1930s

Douglas DC-4 of AVENSA at Oakland, California, Feb 53

Capelis XC-12 (side view, on the ground) with later windscreen and cabin windows at Oakland, CA

General view of Oakland, California, USA, with the First National Bank building in the foreground. circa 1910

Broadway and Telegraph Street, Oakland, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Golden Gate Bridge cable, San Francisco, California, USA
A section of suspension cable used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge at Oakland, San Francisco, California, USA. Seventy thousand miles of wire were used in the finished cables

Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
Oakland Bay Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California, USA. circa 1936

Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller) - US Poet
Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller) (1837-1913) The Poet of the Sierras - US Poet at his home near Oakland, California. Date: 1907

Autographed photo of Amelia Earhart and her crew alongside their Lockheed Electra in 1937 before taking off from Oakland, California, for Honolulo

An evening at Oakland. Romance, composed & respectfully dedicated to the senior class of 1860, of Oakland Female Institute, by Thomas O Neill

The California league grounds, San Francisco vs. Oakland, September 9, 1890. Print shows a baseball game in progress between San Francisco and Oakland at the California League grounds on September 9

Lake Merritt, Oakland, California. Date between 1898 and 1905

USA / Oakland 1920
A fine overview of the city of Oakland, California, USA

Radiator Badges 1926
including such well-known marques as Minerva, Oakland, Rhode, Star, Straker Squire, Swift, Trojan, Unic, Vulcan, and Windsor, not to mention Lea-Francis and Lagonda

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