Name/Title
Miscellaneous City documents, 1917-1937Entry/Object ID
2011.85.4Scope and Content
Accession No. 11.85.4
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1917 - 1937
Object: Folder, file
Description: Light tan legal size manila file folder, with tab stating ‘2879’.
L 14 3/4" x W 9"
History of Object: Folder found in the attic of City Hall with miscellaneous documents. Marked documents: #2879: Alaska Packers & closing sections of Paru & Eagle (1918-1919); #2785: Barnes & Tibbits trying for federal shipbuilding contracts (1917); #2789: options to kill English Sparrow invasion (boys with guns, poison seed; 1917); #2800: 3 applications for City Manager (1917); 2803: North side improvement Club protesting against expenses for parks, (1917); #2801: 1917-1918 City Budget; #2808: American Red Cross fighting Influenza epidemic (1917-1919); #2809: Move of 2217 Alameda Ave to N side Encinal, second lot from corner Encinal and Regent by Alameda Land Co, 1428 Park St. (1917); #2812 extending Morton (1917); #2821: Letter Carriers Band attend national convention (1917); #2829: request for support for Home Defense and Rifle Club (1917); #2833: opening of San Antonio near Burbank (1917); #2836: City Managers Convention (1917); #2838: petition for change of zoning for corner Web and Park by W.D. and E.D. Anderson represented by Hally & Co., 2315 Santa Clara (1917); #2846: Letters and correspondence, incl. with President T. Roosevelt, with Ben Lamborn, 1428 Morton, about the July 22, 1916 Preparedness Day Parade Bombing in San Francisco, in which his brother, L. H. Lamborn, was one of those killed (1917). #2843 American Defense Society letter about German spies (1917); #2877: thanks from W. B. Stephens for (electrical) service to Boy Scout headquarters (1918). Unmarked / no number: 1915 USGS Topographical Map of the North Bay; 1919 Pacific Hog Company receipt; 1926 blueprint map of location of arks near Clay, Calhoun, Fillmore, and Market (later High) Street; 1927 Letter from Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railway, about a Beltline track to Sherman Street; c. 1928 magazine clipping of article by Mrs. William Laimbeer, about bonds; 1929 quotes for automobile liability insurance from C. L. Traver and Son, 2315 SantaClara; 1930 applications for Insurance Advisor (Tom Howen, 2413 Santa Clara; Woolley & Company, 2419 Santa Clara; Ader and Mathebat, Park at Central); 1930 photo and telegrams relating to deed transfer of Government Island; 1931 Blue print poster about mosquito abatement; 1937 invitations from various organizations to City Manager Schwanenbert (Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, American Legion Auxiliary, Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta, Chamber of Commerce); 1940 bill from Piatt’s for various photo developments and supplies; 1941 lumber and hardware bills related to Krusi Park (Loop, Vosburgh).
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: December 21, 2011