Name/Title
Handwritten report about Porter School, by Myrtle Richards, 1926Entry/Object ID
1999.415.2Description
ACC. NO. 99.415.2
SUBJECT CATEGORY: SCHOOLS, PORTER
DATE OR PERIOD: 1926
OBJECT: REPORT
DESCRIPTION: A SEVEN - PAGE HANDWRITTEN REPORT ON TISSUE PAPER. COVER PAGE HAS A BOLD-PRINTED CAPTION, "FACTS CONCERNING PORTER SCHOOL IN ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA."
SIZE: L 11" X W 8-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT: A HANDWRITTEN REPORT BY THE LATE MYRTLE RICHARDS WHO, AT ONE TIME, WAS CURATOR OF THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL MUSEUM. THE REPORT CONCERNS THE HISTORY OF PORTER SCHOOL.
DONOR: THE REPORT WAS PRESENTED TO THE PORTER SCHOOL PTA ON FOUNDERS' DAY IN FEBRUARY 1926. THE REPORT IS IN MRS RICHARDSON'S HANDWRITING. IT WAS PRESENTED TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL MUSEUM PRIOR TO 1971 AND NOT CATALOGED UNTIL 1999.
CATALOGED: JULY 31, 1999
RECORDED BY: ELIZABETH J. SAUNDERS