Name/Title
Alameda High School 1946 ‘Acorn’ yearbook of Bob O'HareEntry/Object ID
2020.53.1Description
Acc. No. 20.53.1
Subject Category: Schools, High, Alameda
Date / Period: 1946
Object: yearbook
Description: Hardbound book, with cover of cardboard with dark blue plasticized buckram, and caption in Gold, with newsprint-look filled letters: “ACORN 1946”.
Size: L 10 3/4” X W 8”
History: Alameda High School “Acorn” Yearbook for 1946, owned by Bob O'Hare. Rear portion of book has advertisements for local merchants.
Robert Frederick O'Hare was born in San Francisco in 1930. His family moved to Alameda sometime after 1940. After College in Oakland and military service in Korea, he moved to New York and worked in fashion, before moving back to California, and eventually teaching Apparel Design at the College of Alameda.
This collection of yearbooks belonged to Bob O’Hare, were donated to the Berkeley Public Library, and were in their workroom for several years.
Added to the collection as a second copy.
Acquired from: Sayre Van Young,
Berkeley Public Library
Donation Date: June 6, 2020
Arrived by mail 7/6/2020
Cataloged: October 8, 2020
