Guide to the Collection of Photographs Relating Mainly to Contra Costa County, Calif. [graphic], ca. 1900-ca. 1970

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Guide to the Collection of Photographs Relating Mainly to Contra Costa County, Calif. [graphic], ca. 1900-ca. 1970

Collection number: BANC PIC 1967.029--PIC

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1972
Encoded by:: James Lake

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Collection of Photographs Relating Mainly to Contra Costa County, Calif. [graphic],

Date (inclusive): ca. 1900-ca. 1970

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1967.029--PIC

Creator: Collier, George C.

Extent: Number of prints: 64

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

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[Identification of item], Collection of photographs relating mainly to Contra Costa County, Calif. [graphic], BANC PIC 1967.029--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Camanche Dam.

Pardee Dam.

Briones Dam.

Lafayette Dam. Herrington-Olson photography.

Upper San Leandro reservoir. East Bay Municipal Utility District phot.

Chabot Dam and reservoir. Herrington-Olson photography.

San Pablo Dam and reservoir. Herrington-Olson photography.

Walnut Creek shopping center. Aerial view.

Eureka Oil Company, Contra Costa Co., 1966 or 1967. Donald A. Burriston phot.

10.

Port Costa brickworks, 1966. Burriston phot.

11.

Port Costa brickworks, 1966. Burriston phot.

12.

Port Costa [town], 1967. Burriston phot.

13.

Portion of Shell refinery, Martinez.

14.

Hercules Powder Company, 1965. Aerial view. Burriston phot.

15.

Hercules Powder Company. Aerial view.

16.

Richmond refinery, 1900-1901.

17.

[Looking toward Pt. Richmond; Richmond yacht harbor in foreground.]

18.

Ells Landing. S. 8th to S. 12th Streets, Richmond.

19.

Richmond land sale, Cutting Blvd., 1901.

20.

Chinese shrimp camp, near Pt. Molate, 1902.

21.

Site of Chinese shrimp camp, 1965.

22.

Point Richmond from Nicholl's Knob, ca.1902.

23.

View from Nicholl's Knob. EBMUD water tower in foreground; Angel Island in distance, 1966.

24.

Brothers Island lighthouse.

25.

American Smelter zinc plant, near Selby.

26.

Byron Hot Springs. Old hotel, 1878-1902. copy. phot.

27-29.

Byron Hot Springs. Hotel destroyed in 1915. #29 copied from printed source.

30.

Byron Hot Springs. "The present hotel".

31.

Byron. Copy phot. of main street; large mule train on street.

32-39.

Snapshots taken in the Byron area; includes Excelsior School.

40-47.

Tassajara (Contra Costa Co.) school building.

48-52.

Highland School, Contra Costa Co. Taken 1970.

53.

Contra Costa Junior College District offices in Martinez. Date unknown.

54.

Contra Costa County Finance Building, Martinez, 1967. Elmo Crow phot.

55.

Gravestone of Joseph R. Walker.

56.

Store, Canyon, Calif.

57.

Rock walls, East Bay hills. Date unknown.

58.

Berreyessa Adobe.

59.

San Francisco Chief (Santa Fe RR) crossing Muir Trestle, Glen Frazer. Santa Fe phot by R. Collins Bradley.

60.

San Francisco. Beach, Cliff House and Seal Rock. ca.1900?

61.

"Across the Golden Gate, San Francisco, looking over the Fort [Point]", ca.1900.

62.

Military ship at Port Chicago.

63.

"Flood control work [canal], Pine Creek [Contra Costa Co.] Mt. Diablo in background.

64--AX.

"Part of the Brooks Island landscape" stamped "Planning Division Department of Public Works, Richmond" dated 6/55.