Name/Title
Alameda History Scrap Book, c. 1955Entry/Object ID
1972.1.3Description
ACC. NO. 72.1.3
SUBJ. CATEGORY: HISTORY OF ALAMEDA
DATE OR PERIOD:
OBJECT: SCRAP BOOK
DESCRIPTION: BEAUTIFULLY BOUND VICTORIAN LEDGER BOOK. BROWN
LEATHER ACCENTUATED WITH RED LEATHER, TRIMMED IN GOLD. ON THE SPINE OF THE BOOK, IN GOLD PRINT, CITY OF ALAMEDA.
SIZE: 19" X 14"
HISTORY OF OBJECT: SCRAP BOOK COMPILED BY FRED CROLL, CONTAINING WRITTEN HISTORIES ON SPECIALIZED SUBJECTS RELATING TO ALAMEDA HISTORY, PARKS, TRANSPORTATION, ETC. ALAMEDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DATA, 1947. NAVAL AIR BASE. POPULATION STATISTICS. TAX RATE AND VALUATIONS. MAPS OF ALAMEDA, 1947, (WITH NAMES OF TRACTS). INFORMATION ON CITY HALL TOWER, PAGE 9. (REMOVAL DATES AND PHOTOGRAPHS ). HISTORY OF TOWN, PAGE 10. BIOGRAPHY, DON LUIS MARIA PERALTA, PAGE 15. HISTORY OF BEACHES, PAGE 16. LIST OF SCHOOL BONDS, PAGE 21. STATISTICS, ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT, 1904-1915, PAGE 31. POPULATION, 1860-1954, PAGE 89. SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE, 1874-1914, PAGE 96. DIMENSIONS OF SCHOOL LOTS.
THE BOOK WAS FOUND IN THE IRON SAFE OF FRED CROLL, FORMER AUDITOR AND ASSESSOR, IN THE ASSESSORS OFFICE, CITY HALL, AND GIVEN TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY THE PRESENT ASSESSOR, RAYMOND D. MARTIN.
ACQUIRED FROM: RAYMOND D. MARTIN
ROOM 310, CITY HALL
DATE: JAN, 1972
