Name/Title
Weighing card from Schroeder & Victors, 1880Entry/Object ID
2021.107.1Description
Acc. No. 21.107.1
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda; Hay and Feed
Date or Period: 1880
Object: calling card
Description: A card of paper cardstock, with printed text in varying type styles, stating: 'Schroeder & Victors, Hay and Grain, Wood and Coal, cor: Park Street and Webb Avenue.
Verso has weighing information, with blanks filled in in pencil. Printed information has the year 1880. Penciled information states 'Watering Card' in the 'teamster' slot.
Size: L 3 1/2 x W 2 1/2 inches.
History of Object: Weighing card from Schroeder & Victors, owners Adolph Schroeder (c. 1828-1892) and his nephew Albert Victors (1842-1904). Schroeder had immigrated from Germany and had operated a coal business in San Francisco, and came to live in Alameda around 1874. He then built a building on the corner of Park Street and Santa Clara (called the ‘Schroeder building’, 1876). In 1880 he started the hay, feed, coal etc. business on the corner of Park and Webb with his nephew. Victors married and moved, first to 1610 Walnut, later to 1018 Paru Street, which house still stands. The Schroeder family home on 1580 Lincoln was torn down and a new building was built in its place in 1925.
After Victors’ death, the fuel business was taken over by Rhodes & Jamieson.
Acquired from: unknown
Catalog Date: 9/24/2021
