Name/Title
Scrapbook concerning the Commuters' Club, c. 1938Entry/Object ID
1997.439.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.439.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: TRANSPORTATION; FERRY
DATE OR PERIOD: 1938
OBJECT: SCRAPBOOK
DESCRIPTION:
SOFT-BOUND ALBUM, WITH COVER DESIGN FEATURING INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED SKETCHES OF DOGS ON A GREEN-COLORED BACKGROUND. BOLD-PRINTED CAPTION STATES, "SCRAP BOOK."
SIZE: L 15-1/4" x W 10-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS PERTAINING TO A COMMUTERS' CLUB, WHOSE MEMBERS UTILIZED THE FERRY SERVICE BETWEEN ALAMEDA AND SAN FRANCISCO. CLIPPINGS INCLUDE THE BURIALAT-SEA OF THE FERRY BOAT MODEL. LATTER IS PRESENTLY IN THE COLLECTION AT THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL MUSEUM. SCRAP BOOK ALSO INCLUDES A TIME TABLE FOR FERRY SERVICE AND A CRYING TOWEL, DATED JANUARY 3, 1939. ALSO INCLUDED IS A SOUTHERN PACIFIC BULLETIN, DATED JANUARY 1939. ALBUM WAS GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, NUMBERED "44," AND HERETOFORE UNCATALOGED.
ACQUIRED FROM:
RALPH ARCHINAL
CATALOGED: AUGUST 23, 1997
