Walnut Creek (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- Walnut Creek (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
Ygnacio Valley Library Chronology:
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors accepts gift of 1.15-acre site from Nellie G. Casey (November 25, 1969).
County Board of Supervisors with consent of Cities of Concord and Walnut Creek forms County Service...
Danville (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- Danville (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
Danville Library Chronology:
Danville Grange arranges for library service from the California State Library (1906).
Danville Grange writes letter in support of the formation of the Contra Costa County Library (July 19, 1913).
Branch library opens...
San Ramon (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- San Ramon (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
Dougherty Station Library Chronology:
Library Advisory Committee recommends planning for library in Dougherty Valley and for at least one additional branch in San Ramon in the future (March 11, 1998).
Diablo Valley College Strategic Plan calls for...
Danville (Calif.).; Library buildings -- History -- Danville (Calif.).; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).;
Photograph of the San Ramon Valley Library shortly after opening in its new location in 1962. The name was changed to the Danville Library when the San Ramon Library opened in 1989.
Pinole (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- Pinole (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
Pinole Library Chronology:
Contra Costa County Library establishes branch in the Pinole Opera House (March 5, 1914).
Mr. L. P. Brandt builds Pinole’s first library building, an 8x10 foot corrugated sheet metal structure, on the corner of San Pablo...
San Ramon (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- San Ramon (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
San Ramon Library Chronology:
County Librarian, Clarence Walters, outlines need for expanded library service in the San Ramon Valley in a memorandum to County Administrator, J. P. McBrien (November 1973).
Pacific Rim Development Co. announces that...
Walnut Creek (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- Walnut Creek (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
El Sobrante (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Library buildings -- History -- El Sobrante (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.;
El Sobrante Library Chronology:
County Library establishes a station in the home of Mrs. Blanche Burg (December 1938).
Station closes when Mrs. Burg takes a war job (September 1943).
El Sobrante Garden Club sponsors new station in a small building...
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.). ; San Ramon Valley (Calif.) -- History -- Maps. ; Land grants -- California -- Contra Costa County -- Maps.;
Mandala.; Circle -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.; Local artists -- California -- Contra Costa County.;
Merry Renk, artist and goldsmith, 1921-2012, held exhibitions in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fort Wayne. The sculpture was created in 1966 and is currrently mounted outside of the Ygnacio Valley Library, by the main entrance.
Quilt depicts children reading various books. It is currently hanging on the wall in the children's area in the Ygnacio Valley Library. Quilt was donated to the library in 2001 by artist Liz Piatt.
Located in Orinda. Said to be the only remaining part of Moraga's Rancho past, located on a hill above Moraga Valley. Construction began in 1841; originally 3 rooms. Made of bricks to form 36" width exterior walls. Redwood cut from Moraga...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.; El Sobrante (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Soap box derbies -- California -- El Sobrante -- History -- Photographs.;
First and second place winners of the annual soapbox derby, staged along Valley View Road from Marie Murphy School, October 19, 1957. The winner, Mike Thomas, is at the left, accompanied by Kathy Gannon. The second place contestant is Kenyon...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.; El Sobrante (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- California -- El Sobrante -- History -- Photographs.;
Ed’s Tavern, corner of San Pablo Dam Road and Castro Road (now Valley View) around 1940. There are many bars in El Sobrante, but Ed’s is the oldest, having once been a road house when the San Pablo Dam Road was known as the San Pablo Creek Road....
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Photographs.; El Sobrante (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs.; Portraits, Group -- California -- El Sobrante -- History -- Photographs.;
Thode ranch, 1880s. H.N. Thode was a German immigrant who built this home at what is now the corner of Valley View Road and Olinda Road. House is still standing and is the oldest standing home in El Sobrante. Thode and wife Elsabe are probably...