Name/Title
Alameda Rug Works engraving plates, Ca. 1930Entry/Object ID
1981.166.1Description
Acc. No. 81.166.1 A & B
Subject Category: Businesses (Rug Works)
Date or period: Circa 1930
Object: Engraving plates
Description: Two engraving plates mounted on a board.
(A) Blue engraving plate. It has a picture of the factory building, and employees, and trucks, and portraits of the owners.
(B) It is a metal plate mounted on a block of wood that is one inch thick. It is an outline block print.
Size: board: 14" x 6½"; A: is 8½ x 5 3/4"; B: Is 4½" by 3½".
History of Object: Alameda Rug Works established 1906. These are engraving plates used by this business. In the larger plate the owners are standing left to right: Mr. Henry Osterdock, Mr. Louis M. Osterdock, Mrs. Mary E. Osterdock, and John A. Osterdock (Father)
Acquired from: Mrs. Mary Osterdock
Date: 1953Interpretative Labels
Label
8/5/2020 MvL: a label has been glued to the board between the two plates with the text:
"Two copper Egraving plates used by Alemeda Rug Works. Standing left to right. 1906
Mr. Henry Osterdock.
Mr. Louis M. Osterdock.
Mrs. Mary E. Osterdock.
Mr. John A. Osterdock (Father)"
