Name/Title
Scrapbook of the Alameda Improvement Club, 1910-1940Entry/Object ID
1997.441.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.441.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: CLUBS
DATE OR PERIOD: 1910 thru 1940
OBJECT: SCRAPBOOK
DESCRIPTION:
HARD-BOUND SCRAPBOOK, WITH COVER OF GREY-COLORED BUCKRAM, AND BORDER IN BLACK-COLORED TYPE. HAND-CREATED CAPTION ON COVER STATES, "SCRAPBOOK, 1910."
SIZE: L 15" X W 10-3/4"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
SCRAPBOOK OF THE ALAMEDA IMPROVEMENT CLUB, WHICH INCLUDES CLIPPINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. THE CLUB HAD A MEMBERSHIP OF WEST- ENDERS WHOSE GOAL WAS TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS IN THE AREA. SOME OF THE ISSUES WERE STREET IMPROVEMENTS, TRANSPORTATION, ETC. PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDE A VIEW OF LONGFELLOW SCHOOL, ALAMEDA FREE LIBRARY, AND PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEMBERS. BOOK WAS GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1952, NUMBERED "S-43," AND HERETOFORE NOT OFFICIALLY CATALOGED.
ACQUIRED FROM:
MR F R NEVILLE
MARCH 1952
CATALOGED: AUGUST 23, 1997
