Name/Title
Account book of the Royal Swim Club, 1903Entry/Object ID
1998.412.1Description
Acc. No. 98.412.1
Subject Category: Clubs
Date or Period: 1903
Object: Account Book
Description: Account book hard cover with hand inscribed entries on lined paper.
Cover of book has incised letters RSC on patterned background. Spine of red colored leather.
Size: L 12 1/2 W 5 1/2 inches
History of Object: Account book containing dues of members of the Royal Swim Club later known as the Royal Athletic Club. The members erected a club house at the foot of Weber Street in 1904. The membership consisted of boys living in the vicinity of Weber Street. The donor was a member of the Club. Object donated to the Alameda Historical Society, numbered 211B, in 1957 and never catalogued.
Donor: Judge Homer Spence
Donated: December 5, 1998