Alden's Fotothing

Latham Fountain sits at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Broadway in downtown Oakland. The four large granite basins were for watering horses. The inscription reads, "Erected to the memory of James R. Latham and Henrietta Marshall Latham as a tribute to their humanity / Presented to the city of which they were earliest residents by their children under the auspices of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals / Erected March 1913"

On the other side there is said to be a bronze plaque depicting an angel restraining a man who is beating a horse -- a reference to the incident in London that gave rise to the original SPCA in 1824.