Name/Title
Background information related to the Posey Tube, 1913-1925Entry/Object ID
2011.62.1Description
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Accession No. 11.62.1
Date or Period: 1913-1925
Object: File Folder
Description: Acid-free legal size file folder with documents, including large size maps, correspondence, magazine or newsletter sections, and copies of legal documents.
History of Object: Documents related to the Posey Tube. Includes large size maps for a 1913 proposed 3-tube subway/highway connection, bridge maintenance contract between Southern Pacific and the County; engineering publication about NYC tubes (1917) and accompanying letter to C.E. Hickok, City Engineer (1919); 1920 correspondence regarding representatives from the Oakland and Alameda Chamber of Commerce into an advisory committee; 1923 bond measure; 3 1926 excerpts from engineering magazines regarding the progress (one quoting Lochiel M. King as Construction Engineer in charge of field work). Part of papers found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: 9/3/11