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San Francisco, CA Circa August 1956 – Women volunteers campaigning for Dwight Eisenhower, wearing dresses made of stickers, pass out chewing gum at the GOP National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. (Robert Stinnett / Oakland Tribune Photographer)
Oakland, CA June 7, 1928 - The California Republican delegation makes their way to Kansas City, Missouri for the Republican National Convention from the Southern Pacific Railroad 16th Street Station. Seated, with the bear brooch, is Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts; standing behind him is Marshall Hale, founder of the Hale Brother’s Department Stores. (Edward A. “Doc” Rogers / Oakland Tribune)
Former Golden State Warriors coach of 13 years, Alvin Attles on the sidelines of a home game in Oakland. These photos are undated but we estimate them to have been taken sometime between 1970 and 1975. (Oakland Tribune Photos)
San Francisco, CA Circa June 1920 - California’s delegation heads off to Chicago for Republican National Convention. On the rear platform are M. H. de Young (wearing a bowtie), Annie Marshall Reid - Rolph (center) and San Francisco Mayor “Sunny Jim” Rolph. The delegation pledged to vote for California Senator Hiram Johnson who was defeated for the nomination by Warren Harding. (Edward A. “Doc” Rogers / Oakland Tribune)
Despite some reports, print’s not dead. Today, the 142-year-old Oakland Tribune became a weekly.
Photo of the circulation fleet lined up on Franklin Street between 12th and 13th Streets circa 1934. (Oakland Tribune Staff)
TODAY IN HISTORY
70 years ago, on July 17, 1944, the largest explosion on the homefront in World War II killed 320 men, 202 of them African-American at Port Chicago Magazine, Concord, California. What followed was the largest mutiny trial in United States Naval history and the desegregation of the military.
We remember Port Chicago with coverage by Lisa White and a historic photo slideshow.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_26162692/
http://photos.mercurynews.com/2014/07/17/port-chicago-remembered/
Tule Lake: Domestic Life
In the first photo, Mrs. Yoshi Mori knits and her daughter Jean darns a garment in the living room of their barrack. 500 square feet per barrack was allotted to each family at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
The Buddhist shrine flanked by paper flowers is also from Mrs. Mori's home who lost her husband Kanichi Mori, May 7, 1943.
In the final photo is the Tule Lake Relocation Center cooperative grocery store where evacuees could purchase non-rationed goods .
Tule Lake was the second of 10 relocation centers built during World War II to house and segregate Japanese–Americans, though there were a variety of camps.
All photos taken May 26, 1943 by Carl Bigelow of the Oakland Tribune.
Tule Lake Relocation Center: Agriculture
Tule Lake was the second of 10 relocation centers built during World War II to house and segregate Japanese –Americans, though there were a variety of camps.
All photos were taken on May 26, 1943 by Carl Bigelow of the Oakland Tribune.
In the first photo, an unidentified man operates the tractor at the Tule Lake Relocation Center potato farm.
In the second photo, potato planters start out in gangs across the extensive farm acreage. Some 3,000 acres where devoted to farming.
In the third photo, men are seen sorting the potatoes.
Tule Lake Relocation Center: Recreation
An unidentified couple at a community dance held at the Recreation Hall. The man in the glasses is Arata "Zigsy" Akahoski, 21, of Oakland. Can you identify the dancers?
Below, Mrs. Y. Yoshihara of Olympia, Washington gets her hair done by Mrs. Mary Takita of Walnut Grove, California.
Tule Lake was the second of 10 relocation centers built during World War II to house and segregate Japanese –Americans, though there were a variety of camps.
All photos taken May 26, 1943 by Carl Bigelow of the Oakland Tribune.
San Francisco hosted its first World's Fair back in 1894. The California Midwinter International Exposition was held for six months inside Golden Gate Park from January to June.
The exposition's buildings and attractions were meant to be removable but some have become iconic landmarks of the park: the Japanese Tea Gardens, Fine Arts Palace and Stow Lake.
The original fine arts palace was built in an Egyptian style but was later rebuilt and renamed the de Young after Commissioner Michael de Young who headed the Expo.
These two photos were taken by former Oakland Tribune photographer Edward "Doc" Rogers before he began a career in photojournalism. Both are taken from above Stow Lake. The easiest buildings to recongize are the 100-foot ferris wheel, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, constructed in a Moorish style (at the very center of the first photo) and the Electric Tower which sat in the center of the concourse.
Frequently Asked Question:
"How do I read an old article?"
Answer:
Our "Help" page is here to, well, help. http://oaklandtribunearchives.tumblr.com/help
A list of local libraries and all their information is provided. You can also find other libraries with Tribune microfilm and books on http://www.worldcat.org/
If you are looking for an article published before 2001 and are not located in California, there are two websites with paid access to selected years of the Oakland Tribune microfilm. They are www.newspaperarchive.com and www.newspapers.com.
As of December 2013, Bay Area News Group is working with the University of California at Riverside to have all post-1922 content scanned and available to the public as part of the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
All newspapers published prior to January 1, 1923 are under public domain, dates after that are under copyright.
We are thrilled to be working with the CDNC to make the Tribune publicly accessible.
If you're interested in history, please browse their site http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc. You are sure to get lost reading old stories.
Trip in Time: Businesswomen United
At a meeting on the evening of Friday March 16, 1917, women from around the East Bay met at Hotel Oakland to form an organization that would bring camaraderie to business women.
That organization would become the Oakland Business and Professional Women's Club, one of the oldest in the state.
Gladys Barndollar, Alice Burnell and Helen Powers headed the venture. Barndollar previously presided over the women's bureau of the Chamber of Commerce.
Just six months before the BPWC formed, the women's bureau started an "Oakland Label" initiative to encourage products made in Oakland be promoted as such and made distinctive so that money would make its way back into the city. This initiative to sell Oakland was carried on by the BPWC.
Burnell was the club's first president and the first female court reporter appointed in 1919 in Alameda County Superior Court. She presented a petition signed by several hundred women noting that no woman had ever held the position.
In 1922, Oakland hosted the third annual convention of the California Federation of Business and Professional Women, where noted lawyer and suffragist Gail Laughlin gave a fiery speech calling for the federal government to give women the same legal rights as men.
In addition to boosting economic stability for the city, the club also advocated to protect its beauty and published their own newsletter -- the "Business Women's Herald."
The club began to outgrow its home in Hotel Oakland and for three years the club's holding company financed to build a clubhouse at 15th and Webster streets. On July 14, 1924, a parade of business women carrying shovels and banners -- some reading "Once women got what they wanted by crying, we of today got it by trying" -- marched through Oakland's business district. Meanwhile, 100 women turned their shovels alongside architects Carl Warnecke and Chester Miller and local business associations. The two-story colonial building still stands at 1608 Webster.
The BPWC's dreams of women's equality and a better Oakland live on.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25348413/
Want more?
Business Women's Herald Volumes 1 and 2
Articles from the Oakland Tribune used to research this story
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A previously posted photo of the groundbreaking was posted last year
http://oaklandtribunearchives.tumblr.com/post/46382136557
(Note, upon groundbreaking the address was listed as 1550 Webster but is now 1608. It is still the same building. )
Photo by Edward "Doc" Rogers
Unknown crew members of the Alameda High School Rowing Club practice on the Oakland Estuary sometime in the early twentieth century. This photo is undated but this style of uniform was popular for women between about 1905 and 1915. (Edward "Doc" Rogers / Oakland Tribune)
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Trip in Time: Oakland Tribune at 140
On Saturday evening Feb. 21, 1874, publishers Benet Dewes and George Staniford released the first issue of the Oakland Tribune.
Five thousand copies of the paper, then called the Oakland Daily Tribune, were printed on the second floor of the building at 468 Ninth St. and distributed for free.
It was a four-page paper, measuring only 6 by 9 inches and consisting largely of advertisements.
Dewes and Staniford not only owned and published the paper, but they wrote the stories and printed the paper, too, setting each letter of every word by hand. They set out to create a permanent daily paper for Oakland, and so it has for 140 years.
Engravings were not uncommon. In fact, one was used on the back page of the first issue, but photography wasn't used much in the Tribune until the late 1890s.
Today, of course, things are much different. Reporters and photographers are mobile. Stories and photos are filed electronically and edited in the office by a series of editors. Once it gets the "OK," it moves to the copy desk in Pleasanton for page designing before printing in Hayward and finally at your driveway or local newsstand.
While the Tribune is a great deal younger than our East Coast counterparts -- such as the Hartford Courant (1764) -- what it lacks in age it makes up for in achievements.
In 1923, the Oakland Tribune became the first metropolitan newspaper to regularly publish a column by a black woman. Delilah Beasley's "Activities Among Negroes" reported on the black community locally and nationally until her death in 1934. She urged assistant publisher and California Assemblyman William Knowland in the introduction of California's anti-lynching law. The bill passed a year before her death.
A slideshow of the first 50 years is online at http://photos.mercurynews.com/2014/02/14/trip-in-time-oakland-tribune-at-140/
(Tribune newsboys parade down Eighth Street in 1914 on the paper's 40th Birthday / Edward "Doc" Rogers)
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Some of the 550 black troops of the 394th Quartermaster Battalion are shown in drill order, late July 1941, during the construction of the Oakland Army Base.
Below, in August of the same year, the troops are seen moving into the newly completed barracks from pup tents. Most of the base was built between 1941 and 1942.
(Oakland Tribune Photos)
Joe Louis practices for a bout against at Cesar Brion, held August 1, 1951 at the San Francisco Cow Palace. The exact date of this photo is unknown but in all likelihood was taken on July 30 or 31.
(Albert "Kayo" Harris for the Oakland Tribune)
Update
Digital First Media, owner of the Oakland Tribune, sold the Bay Area News Group photo archives in early December 2013 to an outside company.
This company will digitize our prints and negatives and is projected to be finished in about three years.
As the photo archive is no longer here to browse through and uncover forgotten moments in history, updates to this tumblr will be extremely limited.
Several thousands of prints were scanned before the sale, we still have access during the scanning process if you are curious about a topic, and with my monthly column "Trip in Time," you will still find new photos here on occasion.
Thanks to anyone who has dropped by.
(One of the dark rooms formerly located in the Tribune Tower, 1950.)