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Photograph album of UC Express and Storage Company
1978.090
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Title: Photograph album of UC Express and Storage Company
Dates: ca.1920-1940
Collection Number: 1978.090
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 album, 27 b&w photographs ; 22 x 35 cm.
Repository:
Berkeley Historical Society
Berkeley, California 94704
Abstract: Photographs of UC Express and Storage company and its subsidiary Yellow Van Shipping Company.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research
Photograph album of UC Express and Storage Company. Berkeley Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs show company vans, storage rooms, men packing items, etc. Early photographs show horse drawn wagons on Berkeley
Way at Bonita. Later photos show building and vans on Berkeley Way between Shattuck and Oxford. Includes photos of Yellow
Van Shipping Company, operated by UC Express, one with Yellow Van containers on flatbed car; trucks of both companies on Grove
Street in south Berkeley.