Name/Title
Scrapbook of Dorothy Conard and card, 1995Entry/Object ID
2021.126.1Scope and Content
Acc. No. 21.126.1 A, B, C
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda; LBQT, Alameda Museum
Date or Period: 1960s, 1995
Object: scrapbook
Description: A: binder with cover of mottled brown and tan paper, bound with a brown cord, featuring a brown cut-out and pasted image of a stylized sailboat and the words 'Scrap Book'. Inside cover has a pasted typed letter, a few tan paper pages and wallpaper samples used as scrapbook pages with clippings from Bay area newspapers, including one page about the Posey Tube and on another page an image of the Webster street bridge.
B: card featuring two birds and irises, and C. original envelope, addressed to 'Mr. Gunn'.
Size (scrapbook): L-14 1/2 x W-12 inches.
History of Object: Scrapbook put together in the early 1960s by Dorothy Conard, wife to the minister at the First Congregational Church on Central and Chestnut. The couple moved to Alameda in 1942, and lived in the parsonage next to the church - now replaced by the school building. The donor, and her sisters Victoria and Amy, all born in Alameda, thought to give their grandmother’s scrapbook to the curator, as thanks for facilitating Alameda's first Gay and Lesbian Historical Exhibit in 1995.
Acquired from: Christine Allen
Donated: 1995; Catalog Date: November 8, 2021
