Name/Title
Panoramic View, from City Hall tower, Ca. 1909Entry/Object ID
1981.8.1Description
Ace. No. 81.8.1
Subject Category: Framed photograph
Date or period: Circa 1909
Object: Framed photograph
Description: Black frame containing photograph.
Size: 44 inches by fourteen inches.
History of Object: Panoramic view of Alameda looking west. Originally taken from the tower of Alameda City Hall. Looking down Santa Clara Avenue. Lower left old Spies Home now a dental offices. Upper left Catholic Church; Center right Alaska Packers. Extreme right City of Oakland, Note seven windmills from Artesian wells.
Acquired from: Mr. Everett Farwell
Date: March 1954Interpretative Labels
Label
2/29/2020 MvL: current label reads:
PANORAMIC VIEW ALAMEDA, c. 1906
A view of Alameda looking west. The street at the far left is Santa Clara Avenue, near Walnut Street.
This photograph was taken from the Alameda City Hall tower that became fatally damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
This tower was never rebuilt.
