Name/Title
City Documents relating to shortage of housing, 1918-1919Entry/Object ID
2011.53.37Scope and Content
Accession No. 11.53.37
Subject Category: City of Alameda; WW-I
Date or Period: 1918-1919
Object: File Folder
Description: Acid free legal size, file folder with documents, including a tan, legal size manila file with tab marked ‘176’
Size: L 14 3/4” X W 9”
History of Object: Folder found in the attic of City Hall prior to renovations in the 1990s. Placed in an acid-free folder in 2020. Documents pertain to a reported or suspected (United States Housing Corporation and United States Bureau of Housing in San Francisco, U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation) shortage of housing in Alameda because of the increase in industrial workers for the war effort, and subsequent home registration and survey efforts. Includes correspondence from/with the committee on Rent Profiteering, and sample forms and handbill posters; documents regarding sale of trash; flyers for display cabinets (‘Compendium’) from the Ashtabula Changeable Sign Co.; Sample Gratitude Certificate from the City of St. Paul.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: 10/1/11