Name/Title
Print-outs of letter and articles re 1906 Earthquake, 2021Entry/Object ID
2021.35.1Description
Acc. No. 21.35.1 A, B, C
Subject Category: Earthquake
Date or Period: (1906) 2021
Object: print-out
Description: computer print-out of 3 documents:
A. 4 pages, print-out of a scanned letter (front and back) and envelope (front and back).
B. 2 pages, headlined 'Earthquake! April 18, 1906 (Part 3), with on first page, a picture and the caption 'Heritage' in fancy script
C. Earthquake! April 1906 (Part 4), with caption 'Heritage' and a picture of trees.
Size: L 11” x W 8 1/2"
History of Object: background material printed for an article on the 1906 Earthquake.
A. print-out of a letter, sent to the Alameda Museum President Valerie Turpen, in email correspondence regarding a woman's family. The letter was written by 'Ida' [or Ada?] from Alameda, dated April 27, 1906, and sent to Miss Margaret Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and describes first-hand experience of the earthquake.
B. is an article, Part 3 in a series about the 1906 earthquake, by Woody Minor in his Heritage column for the Alameda Journal in 1989 / 1990, likely prompted by the Loma Prieta earthquake. Part 1 and 2 are already in the museum's ephemera collection.
C. is Part 4, sequence to B, dated January 12-15 1990
Acquired from: Valerie Turpen
Catalog Date: 4/16/2021
