Description
The Berkeley and Oakland Businesses and Scenes collection contains 52 photographs and 3 post cards dating from around the
turn of the century to the 1930s. The collection contains a miscellany of residences, businesses, street scenes, group portraits,
and churches. A large portion of the collection apparently documents the iron ornamentation of many of the featured buildings--perhaps
the work of Liberty Ornamental Iron and Wire Works, Inc., which is pictured in at least one photograph. Notable buildings
and locations include the Berkeley City Hall, the University of California at Berkeley, the Lutheran Church on Bancroft Way
in Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue, Alta Bates Hospital, the residence of C.L. Best, a large Masonic building, and the RKO Golden
Gate Theatre. Much specific information relating to many of the photographs--such as location, subject matter, date, or photographer--remains
unidentified.
Extent
52 photographic prints, 21 x 26 cm. or smaller; 3 post cards, 9 x 14 cm. or smaller.
54 digital objects
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. 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. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use
of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.