Name/Title
History of San Francisco Fire Department, Harry C. Pendleton, 1900Entry/Object ID
1998.422.1Description
Acc. No. 98.422.1
Subject Category: Fire Department
Date or Period: 1900
Object: Book
Description: Hard bound book with cover of red colored buchram with caption "History of San Francisco Fire Department" and a decorative illustration in black colored type printed by the Commercial Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1900. It has 269 pages.
Size: L 10 W 7 inches
History: An illustrated book entitled "The Exempt Fireman of San Francisco".
On page 269 is a brief biographical sketch of Fred K. Krauth, first Fire Chief of the City of Alameda. The article also includes a portrait. This particular volume belonged to the late Fire Chief and is inscribed with his name.
Object given to the Alameda Historical Society prior to 1971, numbered 995, and never catalogued.
Donor: Unknown
Date: December 12, 1998