Fire departments -- Uniforms.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).;
Cheif's hat belonged to Chief Charlie Matteson, who was chief of the El Sobrante Fire Department from the late 1940s until 1969, when he died. -- Provided by El Sobrante Historical Society.
Brown, Thomas A., 1823-1889.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Real property -- California -- Contra Costa County -- History.; Land tenure -- California -- Contra Costa County -- History.;
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; American Smelting and Refining Company -- History.; American Smelting and Refining Company.; Asarco Inc.; Asarco Inc. -- History.; Smelting.;
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Pittsburg (Calif.) -- History.; Historic buildings.; Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve (Calif.).; Historic sites.;
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Pittsburg (Calif.) -- History.; Historic sites.; Historic mines.; Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve (Calif.).;
Antioch (Calif.) -- History.; Historic buildings.; Library buildings -- History -- Antioch (Calif.).; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.). -- Photographs.;
Reference side and charging desk at the Antioch Carnegie Library.
Antioch (Calif.) -- History.; Historic buildings.; Library buildings -- History -- Antioch (Calif.).; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.). -- Photographs.;
Image of the reference corner at the Antioch Carnegie Library.
Oakley (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- Oakley (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
Oakley Library Chronology:
County Library establishes Oakley Branch Library (November 1913).
Library moves to Oakley Woman’s Club (1916).
Oakley Library moves to a new space in the former Oakley School building on East Ruby Street (1975).
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El Cerrito (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- El Cerrito (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
El Cerrito Library Chronology:
Rust Branch Library opens in Rust (now El Cerrito) post office (October 31, 1913).
Library moves to the home of Dr. Joseph T. Breneman (1915).
Rust Branch Library changes name to El Cerrito Branch Library...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.). ; San Ramon Valley (Calif.) -- History -- Maps. ; Land grants -- California -- Contra Costa County -- Maps.;
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Railroads -- California -- Contra Costa County -- History.;
Sliced portion of railroad tie, which was used on the California & Nevada Railroad, which ran through the El Sobrante area in the 1880s and 1890s. -- Provided by El Sobrante Historical Society.
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Schools -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).;
"Pennants from El Sobrante Elementary School, Marie Murphy Elementary School, and De Anza High School. Donated by Kenyon Chan, who lived in El Sobrante and attended all of these schools in the 1950s and early 1960s. Kenyon is the son of Martha...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Restaurants -- California -- Contra Costa County.; Restaurants -- Menus.;
"Foster's Freeze Menu, 3850 San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante. This was the 2nd Foster's Freeze to operate in the town. Undated but probably from around 1970. Business now gone but building still exists" -- Provided by the El Sobrante Historical...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.; El Sobrante (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.;
Alice Campbell, standing across the channel from Richmond Kaiser Shipyard No. 1, c. 1943. Alice was a “Rosie,” though she worked in an office in the shipyards. The Campbell family moved to El Sobrante in 1934 and built a home which still stands,...