Name/Title
Booklet of original documents related to the Alameda Fire Department, 1955Entry/Object ID
1998.366.1Description
ACC. NO. 98.366.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: FIRE DEPARTMENT
DATE OR PERIOD: 1955
OBJECT: BOOKLET
DESCRPTION:
GREEN-COLORED PATTERNED LOOSE-LEAF BOOKLET CONTAINING EARLY HANDWRITTEN AND TYPEWRITTEN DOCUMENTS. COVER HAS AN ATTACHED PAPER LABEL, WITH TYPEWRITTEN CAPTION, "COMMUNICATIONS," AND RECORDS OF THE WHIDDEN HOSE COMPANY, ALAMEDA FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SIZE: L 12" X W 9-1/4"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
BOOKLET CONTAINING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE ALAMEDA FIRE DEPARTMENT WHEN IT WAS COMPRISED OF VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANIES. CAPTION ON COVER IS DECEIVING SINCE SOME OF THE MATERIAL RELATES TO THE SHERMAN STREET FIRE HOUSE, WHICH WAS LOCATED ON SHERMAN STREET BETWEEN CENTRAL AND SANTA CLARA AVENUES. SOME OF THE CORRESPONDENCE IS DATED AS EARLY AS 1894. MOST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE IS ADDRESSED TO A. MR. P R FOX, SECRETARY, ALAMEDA FIRE DEPT. BOOKLET WAS COMPILED BY THE LATE FIRE CHIEF, THOMAS LANE, WHO PRESENTED IT TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1955. SOCIETY MEMBERS NUMBERED THE BOOKLET "63-X" BUT DID NOT OFFICIALLY CATALOG THE OBJECT.
DONOR:
THOMAS LANE
CATALOGED: OCTOBER 31, 1998
