Oakland c1880

Description:
Aerial view of the city of Oakland, Calif. and the Oakland hills (looking northeasterly)

Date of Document:
circa 1880

Document Author:
Unknown

Geographic Location:
10th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
In the latter part of the 19th century, Temescal was the name used to refer not just to the small village that had grown up where Telegraph Road crossed Temescal Creek (today s 51st Street), but to the area extending north from the Oakland city line, at about 38th Street, to the Berkeley border, and from Broadway on the east, to the Emeryville border on the west.