Name/Title
WPA writer’s Project Subject Folders, 1940sEntry/Object ID
2024.59.3Description
Acc. No. 24.59.3
Subject Category: History of Alameda
Date or Period: 1940s
Objects: folders, in cabinet
Description: A wooden file folder cabinet with 4 drawers, containing folders sorted alphabetically by subject. Drawers are labeled:
1. WPA - Research for Alameda History
Book Never Published
A - Agriculture - Religion
2. Events 1860's - 1890
3. R through Preliminaries for Book Series
4. 1891 - 1941 Continued Histories
Size (each folder): L 11 3/4 by W 8 1/2 inches.
Cabinet: H 51 x W 15 3/4 x D 28 inches.
History of Objects: cabinet with folders with mimeographed source information for articles for the 1940s WPA Writer’s Project, to create a book on the history of Alameda. The project was never finished and no book was published.
Donor: unknown
Donation Date: unknown (1950s?)
Catalog Date: 9/18/2024
