Name/Title
Posey Tube history documents, 1919-1928Entry/Object ID
2012.6.16Scope and Content
Accession No. 12.6.16
Subject Category: City of Alameda; Transportation
Date or Period: 1920 - 29
Object: File Folder
Description: Acid-free legal size manila folders with documents, including correspondence, blueprints and publications.
Size folder L 14 3/4” x W 9”
History of Object: Documents found in the attic of City Hall, in a folder (discarded in 2011), with folder tab stating ‘Posey Tube History - 1919-1928’.
Includes copies of the dedication ceremony (one with a cover with rough edge and tissue page, and with a blue sky, three with a more green-tinted sky), a copy of the 1929 report ‘The Precast Method of Subaqueous Tube Construction’ by Francis Betts Smith, in a grey faux-leather cardstock folder; 1929-1941 tow truck service blueprint style statistics; 1927-1941 bridge-openings statistics; correspondence about rerouting public transportation options (1928); 1919 initial recommendation for a tube over a bridge by Lochiel King and City Manager Hickok; History of Estuary Tube Movement 1919-1924 and proposal; 1919 proposal by Lochiel M. King.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: February 18, 2012