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Brickpile Campus (Oakland)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Saint Mary's College was located at the corner of Broadway and Hawthorne in Oakland, California from 1889 to 1928. The cornerstone was laid on October 22, 1887 by Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. Consisting of 2,500,000 red bricks, the building was affectionally known as the "Old Brickpile."

The building suffered three major natural disasters during its thirty-nine years in Oakland - a fire in 1894, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, and finally another fire in 1918.

On May 15, 1927 the final graduating class of the Oakland Brickpile held their commencement on the grounds of the new campus in Moraga, California. Classes began in the Fall of 1928 with the largest freshman class in the history of the College.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Ledgers, 1914 - 1920

 Record Group — Box 100
Scope and Contents

Two ledger books, containing daily records of receipts and expenses. One volume covers July 1914 to May 1917. One volume covers May 1917-February 1920. Volume covering 1914-1917 includes page numbers of Budget Account Ledgers.

Dates: 1914 - 1920

Ledgers, 1919 - 1926

 Record Group — Box 101
Scope and Contents

Two oversize ledger books: One volume labeled "Cash Book" covers March 1919 to November 1921. One volume labeled "Receipts and Expenses" covers March 1925 to June 1926.

Dates: 1919 - 1926

Ledgers. budget by account , 1912 - 1917

 Record Group — Box 93
Scope and Contents

One account book containing "financial records of college budget accounts, including student accounts, payroll, advertising, groceries. Index at front of volume." Contains records for the years 1912/13, 1916/17, and 1914/15

Dates: 1912 - 1917

Ledgers. budget by account, 1917 - 1919

 Record Group — Box 94
Scope and Contents

One oversized ledger book, containing "financial records of college budget accounts, including student accounts, payroll, advertising, groceries. Index at front of volume." Includes records from "1917/1918 to 1918/1919"

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Ledgers. student accounts, 1889 - 1899

 Record Group — Box 72
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Account books and documents of various kinds spanning the San Francisco campus years and the Oakland Brickpile campus years. Bulk of material is related to the Oakland years.

Dates: 1889 - 1899

Ledgers. student accounts, 1904 - 1911

 Record Group — Box 74
Scope and Contents

Financial records appear to cover 08-02-1904 to 04-24-1911

Dates: 1904 - 1911

Ledgers. student accounts, 1899 - 1908

 Record Group — Box 73
Scope and Contents

One oversize account book, contains two invoices dated 1908 from Oakland Electrical Co.

Dates: 1899 - 1908

Ledgers. student accounts, 1908 - 1911

 Record Group — Box 75
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Account books and documents of various kinds spanning the San Francisco campus years and the Oakland Brickpile campus years. Bulk of material is related to the Oakland years.

Dates: 1908 - 1911

Members of the football team practice a flying tackle at the Oakland campus, 1915

 Item
Identifier: SMCA_PHC-4777
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection contains photographs depicting individuals, groups, locations, activities, events, and organizations at Saint Mary's College of California. Many of the photographs in this collection have been removed from other related College Archives collections and gathered here to facilitate access.

The collection contains a mix of photographic prints, negatives, reproductions, and digital surrogates. The collection is largely unprocessed.

Dates: 1915

Oakland Brickpile Years, 1889 - 1927

 Series
Scope and Contents

The Oakland Brickpile Years series contains materials that relate to the years between 1889 and 1927 when the college was located in Oakland and contains clippings, photographs, ephemera, and correspondence from and about that era.

Dates: 1889 - 1927