Name/Title
Folders with papers about bus service, 1929, 1939Entry/Object ID
2011.62.11Scope and Content
Acc. No. 11.62.11 A, B
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1929, 1939
Object: File Folders
Description: Acid-free legal size file folders with correspondence, documents, business cards, and brochures.
Size folders: L 14 3/4” X W 9”
History of Object:
File folders with documents relating to bus service.
A. 1929: Brochures and sample price quotes for buses manufactured by the White Company, San Francisco, sent to the City Manager C. E. Hickok.
B. 1939: Folder with documents relating to public transportation; brochures for Studebaker buses; booklet from Ford, Bacon & Davis, ‘Bus Equipment’; report of the Key System; report on a Municipal Bus System by C. E. Hickok; request for storing gasoline by Encinal Terminals’. Also includes a 1954 letter from the Key System Traffic to Carl Froerer, City Manager regarding changes in fares.
Documents were found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s in old folders, discarded in 2011 upon donation to the museum.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date: 9/3/11