Name/Title
Folder with documents about the city Sewage system, 1945-1954Entry/Object ID
2011.57.8Description
Accession No. 11.57.8
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period:
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid free legal size manila file folder with documents.
Size: L 14 3/4" x W 9"
History of Object:
Documents found in City Hall attic during remodel in the 1990s, placed in a new folder after donation to the museum in 2011. Tab of original folder (now discarded) stated: Sewers, sanitary - General 1945-1954.
History of Object: Documents and maps regarding sewers, and sewage pumping stations. Includes letter with William G. Paden signature authorizing contract on Taylor Avenue to use funds from Board of Education, for connecting the High School to a main line. Also includes a letter from Encinal Terminals, claiming a reimbursement for reworked sewer lines on former Alaska Packers property that needed to be changed for the Kieckhofer Container Company plant and the Stokely Foods warehouse (1950). Also the Alameda Hotel kitchen was blocking their sewer with bones.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: October 1, 2011