The city takes its name from the oak groves that once spread across the entire expanse of the grassy East Bay lowlands. In 1852, a small group of American settlers laid out a grid of streets, drew a set of boundaries with Broadway and Fourth Street at the center and incorporated the City of Oakland, during the land frenzy that gripped California following in Gold Rush. The earliest known photograph of this new village, taken in 1857, shows the foot of Broadway only five years after the city's inception. The picture was included in a photo album that members of the De Fremery family, early Oakland pioneers, mailed to relatives back east to show off their new surroundings. The album is now in the possession of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (COPYRIGHT: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY/YALE UNIVERSITY)