Title:
Homeward bound, first electric, Oakland, Calif. [picture].
Creator:
Unknown.
Subject:
Street-railroads - California - Oakland - Pictorial works.
Local transit - California
- Oakland - History - Pictorial works.
Oakland Transit Company - Pictorial works.
Description:
Title from index card. The image depicts a coach connecting passengers to a car of
the Oakland Transit Co., a consolidation of early transit companies that included the East
Oakland Railroad Co., the operator of Oakland's first electric rail cars. "Homeward
bound : First electric, Oakland, Calif., Behrman collection" is transcribed within
the exposure. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland
Public Library. Number in collection : 256.
Publisher:
Oakland Public Library
Contributor:
Behrman, Martin, 1861-1945.
Date:
1898
Type:
image
Format:
1 photograph : negative. b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier:
copl_053
Knowland Neg. 256
Source:
Martin Behrman Collection.
Coverage:
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Rights:
public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.