Port of Oakland
By: supervising editor, DeWitt Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Dewitt.; California. State Relief Administration.; Port of Oakland.
Publisher: Oakland Board of Port Commissioners
Published: 1934
Place of publication: [Oakland, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Port of Oakland -- History.; Oakland (Calif.) -- History.; Oakland (Calif.) -- Harbor.; Oakland (Calif.) -- Commerce.
Notes: Sponsored by the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners.

"The State Emergency Relief Administration project no. 3-F2-85."

Typescript.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in microfilm from the University of California, Library Reprographic Service.
Table of contents: value: Part I: The waterfront in 1850; value: Squatters, pioneers, town of Oakland is born; value: First meeting of trustees and waterfront is Carpentier's; value: Town of Oakland becomes city of Oakland; value: Carpentier's message to council about the waterfront; value: Life on the waterfront in the 1850's; value: The first ferries; value: Competition for Carpentier's ferry; value: Improvement of creek route and the ferry R.R.; value: Carpentier and Stanford match wits. "Compromise" brings R.R.; value: Cohen takes balance of Oakland's waterfront; value: First federal money for port. Ferry growth; value: Larue defeats Carpentier for legislature.; value: Part II: The big four and Pardee, Mott and "Borax" Smith; value: Anti-railroad agitation and action; value: Harbor improvements. Ferry service; value: Literary lights of the Oakland port; value: Waterfront company receives legal setback; value: The nickel ferry line; value: "Borax" Smith and the Key route; value: Bubonic plague; value: Rollicking days of sail; value: Southern Pacific loses the waterfront; value: The Mott compromise.; value: Part III: Mott program for port development. Harbor bonds voted; value: The lumber cargo; value: Government Island; value: Board of Public Works Administration of Port; value: Shipbuilding; value: The estuary tube and bridges; value: The saga of Hells Bells. Picturesque craft in port; value: Parr terminal development; value: Non-political port commission elected; value: Port commission secures cargoes which brings ships; value: Airport established within harbor; value: Fur hunting; value: River commerce; value: Discriminatory pilotage laws; value: Diversified cargoes come to the port; value: Conclusion.