Pictorial Miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. Views, 1873-circa 1950
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Title: Pictorial miscellany of Berkeley, Calif. views
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 19xx.040
Physical Description:
142 photographs
(142 photographic prints and negatives and 18 digital objects (18 images))
Date (inclusive): 1873 - approximately 1950
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
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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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Assembled by the library from various sources.
Scope and Content
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Photographs
file --PIC, item 1
McKinley School (exterior), Dwight Way
Note
Photographer: Hugo Weitz.
file --PIC, item 2
Berkeley High School (exterior)
circa 1930
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG 8x10.
file --PIC, item 3
Post Office, Allston Way, under construction
circa 1930
Note
Location of originals, negatives or copy negatives: NEG/NEG 8x10.
file --PIC, item 4
Fox-California Theater (formerly T D Theater), Kittredge Street
circa 1930
Note
Location of orginals, negatives or copy negatives: NEG 8x10.
file --PIC, item 5
Claremont Hotel
circa 1915
Note
Location of Originals, negatives or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 6
Claremont Hotel (artist's rendition).
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 7
E.W. Hilgard residence (interior).
Note
From Hilgard papers.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 8
E.W. Hilgard residence (exterior).
file --PIC, item 9
E.W. Hilgard residence (interior).
file --PIC, item 10
E.W. Hilgard residence (dining room).
file --PIC, item 11
E.W. Hilgard residence (interior fireplace).
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 12
John Galen Howard residence (exterior).
file --PIC, item 13
Hyde residence, later Merrill residence (exterior), 2613 Channing Way
circa 1885
Scope and Contents
Mining Building, Bacon Hall, South and North Halls of UC Berkeley in background.
Note
Original shelves as --A. Copy photograph available.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: A/NEG.
Hyde residence, later Merrill residence (exterior), 2613 Channing Way, Berkeley BANC PIC 19xx.040:013--PIC
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Scan from copy print.
file --PIC, item 14
C.T. Blake residence (interior hallway).
Hallway in C.T. Blake residence, Berkeley BANC PIC 19xx.040:014--PIC
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 15
John V. Egleston residence (exterior), 1511 Bonita Avenue
circa 1920
file --PIC, item 16
John V. Egleston residence (exterior), 1511 Bonita Avenue
circa 1909
file --PIC, item 17
Frank Wilson residence (exterior), Hearst Avenue near Scenic Avenue
file --PIC, item 18-25
Unidentified residences
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 26
Post Office (exterior), east side Shattuck Avenue near Center
circa 1900
file --PIC, item 27
Homestead Loan Association (exterior), 2270 Shattuck Avenue
circa 1910
Homestead Loan Association (exterior), 2270 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley BANC PIC 19xx.040:027--PIC
circa 1910
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 28
Berkeley Public Library (interior, showing reading room).
circa 1910
Note
Location of orignials, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 29
Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northwest corner)
circa 1920s
Note
McCullagh photographer.
file --PIC, item 30
Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northwest corner).
March 20, 1923
Note
C.S. Merrill photographer.
file --PIC, item 31
Shattuck Avenue and Center Street (northeast corner), Berkeley Station in foreground
circa 1900
file --PIC, item 32
Center Street (2100 Block) looking toward Shattuck Avenue
circa 1927
file --PIC, item 33
Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block).
circa 1927
Scope and Contents
Includes Sunset Hardware.
file --PIC, item 34
Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block) with crowd of people
circa 1905
Scope and Contents
Includes Pond Drugs and sign for Scotch herb specialist.
file --PIC, item 35
Shattuck Avenue (2100 block).
circa 1898
Scope and Contents
Includes F.V.Baer druggist/chemist.
file --PIC, item 36
Stone gate entrance to Claremont Avenue
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 37
Shattuck Avenue (2100 Block).
circa 1927
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: AX/NEG.
file --PIC, item 38
Berkeley from hills, looking west
circa 1880s
Scope and Contents
UC Berkeley campus is on the right.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
Berkeley from hills, looking west BANC PIC 19xx.040:038--PIC
circa 1880s
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Scope and Contents
UC Berkeley campus is on the right.
file --PIC, item 39
Berkeley from hills, looking southwest
circa 1880s
Scope and Contents
Includes UC Berkeley campus.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:NEG.
Berkeley from hills, looking southwest BANC PIC 19xx.040:039--PIC
circa 1880s
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Scope and Contents
Includes UC Berkeley campus.
file --PIC, item 41
Berkeley, view from University to Mount Tamalpais and San Rafael
1890
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG
Berkeley, view from University to Mount Tamalpais and San Rafael BANC PIC 19xx.040:041--PIC
1890
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 42
Grizzly Peak from Haste Street near College Avenue
February 1896
Scope and Contents
Snow visible on the Berkeley Hills.
Grizzly Peak from Haste Street near College Avenue BANC PIC 19xx.040:042--PIC
February 1896
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Scope and Contents
Berkeley Snow on Berkeley Hills.
file --PIC, item 40
Berkeley, view from University to the Golden Gate
1890
Note
Location of originals, negatives or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 43
Berkeley Hills (Grizzly Peak), snow on hills
February 1896
Snow on Berkeley Hills (Grizzly Peak). BANC PIC 19xx.040:043--PIC
February 1896
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 44
View down Bancroft Way near College Avenue
circa 1890
file --PIC, item 45
North Berkeley looking towards hills
circa 1890
Scope and Contents
Includes railroad at Shattuck and vine.
Note
William R. Nutting photographer.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 46-51
Panoramic views of Berkeley
Note
Fox photographer.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 52-55
Laying of street car tracks on Oxford Street near Kittredge Street and Allston Way
file --PIC, item 56
Oakland Railroad Company, "University Special," Telegraph Avenue
1873
Scope and Contents
Horse drawn railroad car number 11.
Note
Location of originals, negatives or copy negatives:NEG.
file --PIC, item 58
Horse drawn cart
September 9, 1909
Scope and Contents
On side od cart: R. Bianchi & Co.
file --PIC, item 57
Oakland Railroad Company, car number 1. Telegraph Avenue "Dummy Line."
cicra 1888
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 59
North Berkeley from Campanile
circa 1915
Note
Location of originals, negatives or copy negatives:NEG
file --PIC, item 60
Pacific School of Religion
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:NEG/NEG 5x7.
file --PIC, item 61
Bancroft Way (showing residences 2033 down to Milvia Street).
Note
Location of originals,negatives, or copy negatives:NEG/NEG 8x10.
Bancroft Way, Berkeley (showing residences 2033 down to Milvia Street). BANC PIC 19xx.040:061--PIC
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Digitized from modern print.
file --PIC, item 62
Snow on Berkeley hills
January 28, 1916
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:NEG/NEG 5x7
file --PIC, item 63-87
Berkeley fire
September 1923
Note
Location of originals,negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 88
LeRoy Avenue and Ridge Road, showing Alan Freeman house and Cloyne Court (in foreground).
circa 1905
Note
Location of originals, negatives,or copy negatives:NEG.
LeRoy Avenue and Ridge Road, showing Alan Freeman house and Cloyne Court (in foreground). BANC PIC 19xx.040:088--PIC
circa 1905
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Digitized from modern print.
file --PIC, item 89
Allston Way looking east
1888
Note
O. V. Lange photograph.
file --PIC, item 90
Residence, West Berkeley (?).
Note
From UC Berkeley class of 1896 records.
Residence, West Berkeley (?). BANC PIC 19xx.040:090--PIC
circa 1896
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Digitized from modern print.
file --PIC, item 91
Shattuck Avenue from Allston Way looking north
Scope and Contents
The Branch Line Railroad with its diamond stack and square headlight is stopped at Berkeley Station. Railroad crossed Strawberry
Creek in foreground.
Note
Location of originals,negatives, or copy negatives:NEG.
file --PIC, item 92
Lange residence, Rose and Milvia Streets
Note
Demolished in 1960. From the collection of L. Stein.
file --PIC, item 93-94
Residence, 2631 Piedmont Avenue
circa 1913
file --PIC, item 95-96
Hearst Avenue. Winton six-car hanging over road divide
circa 1912
file --PIC, item 97
Walnut and Vine Streets (southwest corner).
circa 1914
Note
Transferred from the Papers of Harry Beal Torry.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:LAN.
file --PIC, item 98
Walnut Street, residences at 1525 and 1529
circa 1912
Scope and Contents
Scene of outbreak of smallpox.
Note
Transferred from the Papers of Harry Beal Torry.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: LAN/NEG.
file --PIC, item 99
1739 Virginia Street
circa 1900
1739 Virginia Street, Berkeley BANC PIC 19xx.040:099--PIC
circa 1900
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 100
1739 Virginia Street
circa 1900
file --PIC, item 101
1739 Virginia Street with Charlotte Harder at gate
circa 1900
1739 Virginia Street with Charlotte Harder at gate BANC PIC 19xx.040:101--PIC
circa 1900
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
House later remodeled.
file --PIC, item 102
Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets
circa 1910
Scope and Contents
Includes Herman Ortman in dog cart.
Note
Building erected 1909.
Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets BANC PIC 19xx.040:102--PIC
circa 1910
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Scope and Contents
Includes Herman Ortman in dog cart.
Note
Bilding erected in 1909.
file --PIC, item 103
Ogden's Grocery Store, Rose and Grove Streets
circa 1910
Note
Building erected 1909.
file --PIC, item 104
1809 Francisco Street
circa 1914
Scope and Contents
Dwelling under construction.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 105
1811 Francisco Street
December 1899
file --PIC, item 106
F.L. Harder at rear of 1811 Francisco Street
circa 1895
Note
Handwritten note on back of photograph: The coyotes used to raid his chicken house.
Note
Location of originials, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
F.L. Harder at rear of 1811 Francisco Street BANC PIC 19xx.040:106--PIC
circa 1895
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 107
1815 Francisco Street
circa 1912
file --PIC, item 108
1817 Francisco Street
circa 1934
file --PIC, item 109
Bear Fountain, looking east on Marin Circle
1911
Scope and Contents
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.
file --PIC, item 110
Bear Fountain, Marin Circle
1911
file --PIC, item 111
1813 Francisco Street
circa 1908
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).
file --PIC, item 112
1815 and 1817 Francisco Street
circa 1910
file --PIC, item 113
North side of Francisco Street between Grove and Grant Streets
circa 1898
file --PIC, item 114
1811 Francisco Street
circa 1900
file --PIC, item 115
1811 Francisco Street or Sixth and Addison Streets
circa 1890
Note
Conflict of annotations in different hands on back of photograph.
1811 Francisco Street or Sixth and Addison Streets BANC PIC 19xx.040:115--PIC
circa 1890
Physical Description:
1 photograph
file --PIC, item 116
Unidentified Berkeley (?) residence
file --PIC, item 117
Grant and Francisco Streets (house under construction).
circa 1908
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 118
1711 Grant Street, between Francisco and Virginia Streets
circa 1910
file --PIC, item 119
A.M. Bossel's grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets (exterior).
circa 1900
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:A/NEG.
A.M. Bossel's grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets (exterior). BANC PIC 19xx.040:119--PIC
circa 1900
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Digitized from copy photo.
file --PIC, item 120
Anna L. Ogden and Bertha Bossel behind counter in grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets
circa 1905
Note
Conflicting annotations in different hands on back of photo.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: A/NEG.
Anna L. Ogden and Bertha Bossel behind counter in grocery store, corner of Grant and Francisco Streets BANC PIC 19xx.040:120--PIC
circa 1905
Physical Description:
1 photograph
Note
Digitized from copy photo.
file --PIC, item 121
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Berkeley
Scope and Contents
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.
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
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: STER/NEG.
file --PIC, item 122
Frederick Harder residence, Daley Avenue near Scenic Park tract
circa 1895
Note
Photo by Wilcox.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:A/NEG.
file --PIC, item 123
Durant Avenue and Bowditch Street, northwest corner
circa 1940
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives:AX/NEG.
file --PIC, item 124
Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, southwest corner
circa 1950
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: AX/NEG.
file --PIC, item 125
William Keith residence, 2207 Atherton Street
circa 1890s
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: AX/NEG.
file --PIC, item 126
Hillside School
1902
Scope and Contents
Located at corner of Le Roy Avenue and Virginia Street. Same image as item 136, but with different cropping.
Note
Hugo Weitz, photographer (copy photograph).
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 127
Machine shop of Francis Ferrier
circa 1910
Scope and Contents
Man in cap is Louis Bossell, Mayor Ferrier's chauffeur and repairman.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 128
Manasse Block Tanning Company
circa 1905
Scope and Contents
Group portrait of employees. Shop located at 1300 Fourth Street, Berkeley.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 129
Manasse Block Tanning Company
circa 1905
Note
August Manasse and Roy Block started in Oakland and moved to Berkeley in 1905.
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 130-133
Shattuck Avenue, downtown Berkeley
circa 1950
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 134
City Hall, Berkeley
circa 1940
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 135
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley
circa 1950
Note
Location of orignials, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG 8 x10.
file --PIC, item 136
Hillside School
1902
Scope and Contents
Same image as item 126, but with different cropping.
file --PIC, item 137-140
Private home in Berkeley
March 1913
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG.
file --PIC, item 141
Berkeley and the Bay from the hills
October 1899
Note
Location of originals, negatives, or copy negatives: NEG (a,b).