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Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950

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Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 1 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950

Collection number: BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC

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Collection Summary Collection Title: Pictorial miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. views Date: 1873-circa 1950 Collection Number: BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC Extent: 142 photographic prints and negatives18 digital objects (18 images) Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Abstract: Buildings, street scenes, residences and other views of Berkeley, including a stereograph of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum by Carleton Watkins and several views of rail lines on Berkeley streets. Numerous views of the devastation caused by the Berkeley fire of 1923 are present. Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Access Collection is open for research, except for original negatives, lantern slides and oversize photographs, which are restricted. Use viewing prints only. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. Views, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Alternate Forms Available Digital reproductions of selected images are available.

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 2 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

item 1 McKinley School (exterior), Dwight Way. Additional Note Photgrapher: Hugo Weitz.

item 2 Berkeley High School (exterior). circa 1930 item 3 Post Office, Allston Way, under construction. circa 1930 item 4 Fox-California Theater (formerly T & D Theater), Kittredge Street. circa 1930 item 5 Claremont Hotel. circa 1915 item 6 Claremont Hotel (artist's rendition). item 7 E.W. Hilgard residence (interior). Additional Note From Hilgard papers.

item 8 E.W. Hilgard residence (exterior). item 9 E.W. Hilgard residence (interior). item 10 E.W. Hilgard residence (dining room). item 11 E.W. Hilgard residence (interior fireplace). item 12 John Galen Howard residence (exterior). item 13 Hyde residence, later Merrill residence (exterior), 2613 Channing Way. circa 1885 Scope and Content Note Mining Building, Bacon Hall, South and North Halls of UC Berkeley in background. Additional Note Original shelves as --A. Copy photograph available.

Hyde residence, later Merrill residence (exterior), 2613 Channing Way, Berkeley. BANC PIC 19xx.040:013--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w112p Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Scan from copy print.

item 14 C. T. Blake residence (interior hallway). Hallway in C. T. Blake residence, Berkeley. BANC PIC 19xx.040:014--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1137 Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 15 John V. Egleston residence (exterior), 1511 Bonita Avenue. circa 1920 Additional Note Built in 1909

item 16 John V. Egleston residence (exterior), 1511 Bonita Avenue. circa 1909 Additional Note Built in 1909

item 17 Frank Wilson residence (exterior), Hearst Avenue near Scenic Avenue. items 18-25 Unidentified residences. item 26 Post Office (exterior), east side Shattuck Avenue near Center. circa 1900 item 27 Homestead Loan Association (exterior), 2270 Shattuck Avenue. circa 1910 Homestead Loan Association (exterior), 2270 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. circa 1910 BANC PIC 19xx.040:027--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w114s Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 28 Berkeley Public Library (interior, showing reading room). circa 1910

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 3 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

item 29 Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northwest corner) circa 1920s Additional Note McCullagh photographer.

item 30 Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northwest corner). March 20, 1923 Additional Note C.S. Merrill photographer.

item 31 Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northeast corner), Berkeley Station in foreground. circa 1900 item 32 Center Street (2100 Block) looking toward Shattuck Avenue. circa 1927 item 33 Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block). circa 1927 Scope and Content Note Includes Sunset Hardware.

item 34 Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block) with crowd of people. circa 1905 Scope and Content Note Includes Pond Drugs and sign for Scotch herb specialist.

item 35 Shattuck Avenue (2100 block). circa 1898 Scope and Content Note Includes F.V.Baer druggist/chemist.

item 36 Stone gate entrance to Claremont Avenue. item 37 Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block). circa 1927 item 38 Berkeley from hills, looking west. circa 1880s Scope and Content Note UC Berkeley campus is on the right.

Berkeley from hills, looking west. circa 1880s BANC PIC 19xx.040:038--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w115b Physical Description: 1 photograph Scope and Content Note UC Berkeley campus is on the right.

item 39 Berkeley from hills, looking southwest. circa 1880s Scope and Content Note Includes UC Berkeley campus.

Berkeley from hills, looking southwest. circa 1880s BANC PIC 19xx.040:039--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w116w Physical Description: 1 photograph Scope and Content Note Includes UC Berkeley campus.

item 40 Berkeley, view from University to the Golden Gate. 1890 item 41 Berkeley, view from University to Mount Tamalpais and San Rafael. 1890 Berkeley, view from University to Mount Tamalpais and San Rafael. 1890 BANC PIC 19xx.040:041--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w117f Physical Description: 1 photograph

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 4 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

item 42 Grizzly Peak from Haste Street near College Avenue. February 1896 Scope and Content Note Snow visible on the Berkeley Hills.

Grizzly Peak from Haste Street near College Avenue. February 1896 BANC PIC 19xx.040:042--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1180 Physical Description: 1 photograph Scope and Content Note Berkeley Snow on Berkeley Hills.

item 43 Berkeley Hills (Grizzly Peak), snow on hills. February 1896 Snow on Berkeley Hills (Grizzly Peak). February 1896 BANC PIC 19xx.040:043--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w119j Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 44 View down Bancroft Way near College Avenue. circa 1890 item 45 North Berkeley looking towards hills. circa 1890 Scope and Content Note Includes railroad at Shattuck and vine. Additional Note William R. Nutting photographer.

items 46-51 Panoramic views of Berkeley. Additional Note Fox photographer.

item 52-55 Laying of street car tracks on Oxford Street near Kittredge Street and Allston Way. item 56 Oakland Railroad Company, "University Special," Telegraph Avenue. 1873 Scope and Content Note Horse drawn railroad car number 11.

item 57 Oakland Railroad Company, car number 1. Telegraph Avenue "Dummy Line." cicra 1888 item 58 Horse drawn cart. September 9, 1909 Scope and Content Note On side od cart: R. Bianchi & Co.

item 59 North Berkeley from Campanile. circa 1915 item 60 Pacific School of Religion. item 61 Bancroft Way (showing residences 2033 down to Milvia Street). Bancroft Way, Berkeley (showing residences 2033 down to Milvia Street). BANC PIC 19xx.040:061--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1203 Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Digitized from modern print.

item 62 Snow on Berkeley hills. January 28, 1916 items 63-87 Berkeley fire. September 1923 item 88 LeRoy Avenue and Ridge Road, showing Alan Freeman house and Cloyne Court (in foreground). circa 1905

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 5 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

LeRoy Avenue and Ridge Road, showing Alan Freeman house and Cloyne Court (in foreground). circa 1905 BANC PIC 19xx.040:088--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w121n Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Digitized from modern print.

item 89 Allston Way looking east. 1888 Additional Note O. V. Lange photograph.

item 90 Residence, West Berkeley (?). Additional Note From UC Berkeley class of 1896 records.

Residence, West Berkeley (?). circa 1896 BANC PIC 19xx.040:090--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1226 Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Digitized from modern print.

item 91 Shattuck Avenue from Allston Way looking north. Scope and Content Note The Branch Line Railroad with its diamond stack and square headlight is stopped at Berkeley Station. Railroad crossed Strawberry Creek in foreground.

item 92 Lange residence, Rose and Milvia Streets. Additional Note Demolished in 1960. From the collection of L. Stein.

items 93-94 Residence, 2631 Piedmont Avenue. circa 1913 items 95-96 Hearst Avenue. Winton six-car hanging over road divide. circa 1912 item 97 Walnut and Vine Streets (southwest corner). circa 1914 Additional Note Transferred from the Papers of Harry Beal Torry.

item 98 Walnut Street, residences at 1525 and 1529. circa 1912 Scope and Content Note Scene of outbreak of smallpox. Additional Note Transferred from the Papers of Harry Beal Torry.

item 99 1739 Virginia Street. circa 1900 1739 Virginia Street, Berkeley. circa 1900 BANC PIC 19xx.040:099--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w123r Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 100 1739 Virginia Street. circa 1900 item 101 1739 Virginia Street with Charlotte Harder at gate. circa 1900 1739 Virginia Street with Charlotte Harder at gate. circa 1900 BANC PIC 19xx.040:101--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1249 Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note House later remodeled.

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 6 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

item 102 Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets. circa 1910 Scope and Content Note Includes Herman Ortman in dog cart. Additional Note Building erected 1909.

Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets. circa 1910 BANC PIC 19xx.040:102--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w125v Physical Description: 1 photograph Scope and Content Note Includes Herman Ortman in dog cart. Additional Note Bilding erected in 1909.

item 103 Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets. circa 1910 Additional Note Building erected 1909.

item 104 1809 Francisco Street. circa 1914 Scope and Content Note Dwelling under construction.

item 105 1811 Francisco Street. December 1899 item 106 F.L. Harder at rear of 1811 Francisco Street. circa 1895 Additional Note Handwritten note on back of photograph: The coyotes used to raid his chicken house.

F.L. Harder at rear of 1811 Francisco Street. circa 1895 BANC PIC 19xx.040:106--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w126d Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 107 1815 Francisco Street. circa 1912 item 108 1817 Francisco Street. circa 1934 item 109 Bear Fountain, looking east on Marin Circle. 1911 Scope and Content Note People in front of fountain (l to r, front): Elise C. Lester, Hermine Price, Marie Roehl; l to r, back: Charlie Roehl, Paul Ogden, Johnny Garski, John Ogden.

item 110 Bear Fountain, Marin Circle. 1911 item 111 1813 Francisco Street. circa 1908 Additional Note Handwritten note on back of photo: Bertha Bossell built the whole house herself. Berkeley Gazette did a story on her. It got onthe wire services, and she received offers of marriage from all over the country. (She was already married).

item 112 1815 and 1817 Francisco Street. circa 1910 item 113 North side of Francisco Street between Grove and Grant Streets. circa 1898 item 114 1811 Francisco Street. circa 1900 item 115 1811 Francisco Street or Sixth and Addison Streets. circa 1890 Additional Note Conflict of annotations in different hands on back of photograph.

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 7 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

1811 Francisco Street or Sixth and Addison Streets. circa 1890 BANC PIC 19xx.040:115--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w127z Physical Description: 1 photograph

item 116 Unidentified Berkeley (?) residence. item 117 Grant and Francisco Streets (house under construction). circa 1908 item 118 1711 Grant Street, between Francisco and Virginia Streets. circa 1910 item 119 A.M. Bossel's grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets (exterior). circa 1900 A.M. Bossel's grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets (exterior). circa 1900 BANC PIC 19xx.040:119--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w128h Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Digitized from copy photo.

item 120 Anna L. Ogden and Bertha Bossel behind counter in grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets. circa 1905 Additional Note Conflicting annotations in different hands on back of photo.

Anna L. Ogden and Bertha Bossel behind counter in grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets. circa 1905 BANC PIC 19xx.040:120--PIC ark:/28722/bk0016w1292 Physical Description: 1 photograph Additional Note Digitized from copy photo.

item 121 Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Berkeley. Scope and Content Note California Institution for the Deaf and Blind. Later the California School for the Deaf, and the California School for the Blind. Stereograph by Carleton Watkins. Additional Note Item digitized as part of virtual collection: Stereographs of the West from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8p3011n9/?brand=oac4

item 122 Frederick Harder residence, Daley Avenue near Scenic Park tract. circa 1895 Additional Note Photo by Wilcox.

item 123 Durant Avenue and Bowditch Street, northwest corner. circa 1940 item 124 Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, southwest corner. circa 1950 item 125 William Keith residence, 2207 Atherton Street. circa 1890s item 126 Hillside School. 1902 Scope and Content Note Located at corner of Le Roy Avenue and Virginia Street. Same image as item 136, but with different cropping. Additional Note Hugo Weitz, photographer (copy photograph).

item 127 Machine shop of Francis Ferrier. circa 1910 Scope and Content Note Man in cap is Louis Bossell, Mayor Ferrier's chauffeur and repairman.

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 8 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950 Container Listing

item 128 Manasse Block Tanning Company. circa 1905 Scope and Content Note Group portrait of employees. Shop located at 1300 Fourth Street, Berkeley.

item 129 Manasse Block Tanning Company. circa 1905 Additional Note August Manasse and Roy Block started in Oakland and moved to Berkeley in 1905.

items 130-133 Shattuck Avenue, downtown Berkeley. circa 1950 item 134 City Hall, Berkeley. circa 1940 item 135 Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley. circa 1950 item 136 Hillside School. 1902 Scope and Content Note Same image as item 126, but with different cropping.

items 137-140 Private home in Berkeley. March 1913 item 141 Berkeley and the Bay from the hills. October 1899

Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, BANC PIC 19xx.040--PIC 9 Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950