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Title Privy to the past : historical archaeology in West Oakland, California
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2007

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 MELB  979.466 Lev/Ptt  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisk (DVD) (29 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert notes ([4] pages ; 18 cm.)
Series Archaeological methods & practice
Archaeological methods & practice.
Summary This documentary shows the excavation in West Oakland, California of the Cypress Archaeological Project, from April 1994 through May 1996. The excavated collections come from the the late 1890's through to the early 1920s and represent a large and diverse set of households from people who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and lived in cottages, boarding houses and hotels. There are also items from the workers at a Chinese laundry, and groups like African American, German, Irish and other families
Notes State of California Department of Transportation in association with Alpha Spectrum Educational Films & Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University
Credits Director, Bill Levinson ; Executive producer, Janet L. Pape ; Producers, Grace H. Ziesing, Adrian Praetzellis ; Writers, Bill Levinson, Grace H. Ziesing, Adrian Praetzellis
Cast Narrator, Mary Wings
Notes NTSC colour recording system
Subject Archaeology -- California -- Oakland.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- California -- Oakland.
Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Oakland.
Material culture -- California -- Oakland.
SUBJECT Oakland (Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79118971 -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
Oakland (Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79118971 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97044778 -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Author Levinson, Bill.
Pape, Janet L.
Ziesing, Grace H.
Praetzellis, Adrian, 1952-
Cypress Archaeological Project
California. Department of Transportation.
Alpha Spectrum (Firm)
Left Coast Press