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Monday-Tuesday
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10:00am-5:30pm
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Wednesday-Thursday
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12:00-8:00pm
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Friday
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12:00-5:30pm
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Saturday
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10:00am-5:30pm
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Sunday
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1:00-5:00pm
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Resources
The
Oakland History Room, a reference library devoted to the history
of California, is an important center for study of the history
and current development of the East Bay.
The
room owns a variety of material about state and local history,
including books, magazines, pamphlets, newspaper clippings,
photographs, postcards, sheet music, trade catalogs, and scrapbooks.
If
you are interested in:
Genealogy,
we have:
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Oakland
City Directories, 1869-1943. |
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Alameda
County Voting Registers, 1867-1944. |
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California
County Histories. |
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Oakland
Birth and Death Certificates, 1870-1904. |
If
you are interested in:
Pictures,
we have:
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Photographs
of Oakland (neighborhoods, events, buildings, houses, people)
from the 1850's to the present. |
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Postcards
of Oakland from the 1910's to present. |
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Oakland
Tribune yearbooks, 1911-1949. |
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Illustrated
books of Oakland from the 1870's to the present. |
If
you are interested in:
Jack
London, we have:
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Jack
London books, biographies, letters and photographs. |
If
you are interested in:
Houses,
we have:
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City
block books, 1877-1925. |
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Sanborn
map books, 1882-1951. |
If
you are interested in:
Theater
and Music, we have:
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Theater
and concert programs of Oakland events, 1880 to date. |
If
you are interested in:
Literature,
we have:
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Novels,
poetry and letters by local authors and other, including
Joaquin Miller. |
If
you are interested in:
Historical
Research & Current Developments, we have:
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A
subject index to articles in books and magazines about California
history. |
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A
newspapers clipping file maintained since the 1920's covering
state and local events. |
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An
index of local newspapers beginning in November, 1978, arranged
by place name, event, person's name or City Department or
Agency. |
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Early
local black newspapers on microfilm. |
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More
than 20,000 books about all aspects of state and local history.
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If
you are interested in:
Requesting
information by mail from the Oakland History Room:
The reference librarians in the Oakland History Room can assist
you by mail with information from our unique local collections,
as listed above. You may also request assistance by e-mail by
using the library's E-answers
service and filling out the online form. We will reply within
2 working days.
Each
search is limited to about 1/2 hour of staff time and 10 photocopied
pages. Persons whose questions require extensive original research
will be referred to information brokers or independent researchers.
Copies of Oakland birth and death certificates, 1870-1904 may
be requested by mail for a donation of $2.00 each. Please direct
requests for obituaries or death notices to the Magazine
& Newspaper Room.
Write
to:
Oakland
History Room Reference Questions
Oakland Public Library
125 Fourteenth Street
Oakland, CA 94612
If
you are interested in:
Browsing
the collection, all are welcome. However, materials from the
Oakland History Room must be used in the Room.
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