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Aeroplane view of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley showing Mt. Diablo – Antique Photo Print

Aeroplane view of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley showing Mt. Diablo, c1934 July 5. — historic photograph
Aeroplane view of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley showing Mt. Diablo, c1934 July 5.. Historic photograph from the Aviation collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Aeroplane view of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley showing Mt. Diablo, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Aeroplane view of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley showing Mt. Diablo

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Aerial views of the San Francisco Bay Area were a novelty in the 1930s, when commercial flights and aerial survey cameras were making it possible to see familiar cities from above. This print frames the Bay itself, with San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley spread along its shores and Mt. Diablo rising to the east as a landmark that helped orient the viewer. Photographs like this, dated to about July 1934 and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, were often made as souvenirs or promotional images, and they now document how the East Bay's streets and shoreline looked before the postwar growth that reshaped them.

Created / publishedc1934 July 5.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.Aerial photographs 1930-1940.
NotesJ15200 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsSan Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,321 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-203109

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