Name/Title
Life time American Red Cross Membership of Richard Lea, 1919Entry/Object ID
2020.47.1Description
Acc. No. 20.47.1
Subject Category: Red Cross; WWI; Citizens of Alameda
Date or Period: 1919
Object: Certificate, framed
Description: Ornate lithographic Certificate lithographic form with text in black ink, with imprinted seal, and a red cross, dated, in faded ink, with three signatures, 1 barely visible, in a narrow wooden frame. Backing paper has a sticker attached to it, with handwriting in blue ballpoint identifying the donors.
Size (frame): L 7 X W 10
History of Objects:
Red Cross Life Membership awarded Richard Lea, signed by Division Manager Willoughby G. Walling, Secretary Stockton Axson and President Woodrow Wilson, dated February 25, 1919.
Richard Lea (1875-1974) was a machinist for the Alaska Packers Association, and holds a patent for a fish-beheading machine (US Patent 1,643,504). He moved with his wife's extended family (McCarthy, Quinn, and Lea families) into neighboring houses at 1254 and 1258 Park Avenue around 1915.
Donor: Mabel Reiner, daughter of Richard Lea
Donated: 8/9/91
Accession Date: 9/21/2020
