Poking around, looking for other stuff, I came across three 1880s? #photos of #Lake ...

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2023-06-12 03:02:51

Poking around, looking for other stuff, I came across three 1880s? #photos of #Lake #Merritt, and realized that the #photographer - William Letts Oliver, most likely - shot them one at a time, "panning" right, and that they'd make a good #panorama. So I fed them to a photo stitching program. The photos were taken from the Roland G. Brown residence. According to the 1879 city directory, Brown lived on Jackson street, apparently on the shore of the lake. If I place my viewpoint at Lakeside & Jackson in google maps 3d view, and "look" northeast, I see the same hill profile in the skyline.

I believe that's Oakland Avenue, in the distance, at left.

https://oaklandwiki.org/William_Letts_Oliver

https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt609nc9kk/?brand=oac4

https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1c6019nc/?brand=oac4

https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt596nc8m8/?brand=oac4

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z9M-W269

https://goo.gl/maps/x2YkHauQwbrmbxEL7

#Oakland #history #LakeMerritt

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