Berkeley: A City in History 9780520934252

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%J&J£L PLATE i. New Berkeley Public Library, Shattuck Ave., ca. 1931. Note the street Christmas decorations.

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PLATE 4. Acheson Hotel, Shattuck Ave. and University Ave., 1892.

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it PLATE 5. and 6. Berkeley branch line steam train on Shattuck Ave. looking north toward University Ave., with Berkeley station in the right foreground, 1888 and 1898. Note the extensive development of downtown during the intervening decade.

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PLATE 7. and 8. Allston Way, looking east from Shattuck Ave., 1888 and 1898, again showing extensive development during the ten-year period.

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PLATE 9. Downtown businesses on the west side of Shattuck Ave. between Addison St. and University Ave., ca. 1890.

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PLATE 10. Looking east on Vine St. from Shattuck Ave., 1898. T h e area developed when the Berkeley branch line was extended to Berryman Station. T h e building on the right still stands and was restored to its original appearance in the 1990s.

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PLATE i i . Deaf and Blind School, now the site of the Clark Kerr Campus, 1898.

PLATE 12. Berthelson's Motor Cycle Garage, West Berkeley, 1915. Note policeman in the crowd. Under Chief August Vollmer, Berkeley's force was one of the first to motorize.

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PLATE 13. Arrival of the Auto Age. Car traffic, Center St. and Shattuck Ave., ca. 1920. T h e building on the left was demolished to make way for the current downtown branch of the Bank of America.

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PLATE 14. and 15. Devastation in the North Gate neighborhood north of campus in the aftermath of the 192 3 firestorm. More than 500 buildings were destroyed in a preview of the even larger 1991 Oakland/Berkeley Hills fire.

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PLATE 16. View from the hills with the university campus in the foreground, 1889. Note the eucalyptus trees, most planted about twenty years earlier. T h e grove on the west side of the campus still stands and contains some of the largest eucalyptus trees in North America.

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PLATE 17. Campus viewed from the west, 1901. Of the buildings shown, only South Hall on the right still stands. It and North Hall, on the left, were the first two structures on campus when the university moved to Berkeley in 1873. N o r t h Hall is now the site of the Doe Library annex.

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PLATE 18. Bacon Hall, housing the university art gallery and library, 1898.

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PLATE 19. University library interior, Bacon Hall, 1898.

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PLATE 20. Young women, probably students, on campus, 1905. By 1911 women made up 40 percent of U C students.

,-. PLATE 21. University cadet band, 1914. T h e cadets were the precursors of today's R O T C .

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