Name/Title
Folder marked 'Mayor' with miscellaneous documents, 1916-1919, 1938Entry/Object ID
2011.85.10Scope and Content
Accession No. 11.85.10
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1916-1919; 1938
Object: Folder, file
Description: Tan legal size manila file folder with documents and a badge with ribbon. The folder’s tab has handwritten in black ink: ‘Mayor’, and in red pencil: ‘83’. A few documents are bound to the folder with a metal clip. Some of the documents have numbers in black ink on the reverse.
L 14 3/4” x W 9"
History of Object: Miscellaneous documents, some correspondence to and from mayor. Clipped documents are a 1933 report by City Manager Ralph Bryant to Mayor F. Murray, and four copies of 1935 testimony by Hans W. Roebke against grounds for his recall. Numbered documents: #2753: 1916 audit report of Municipal Electric Light Plant by Board of Electricity; #2754: Petition for transfer of funds for uniforms for officer’s training corps at the High School, 1917; #2906: Petition to council, and forwarded to City Manager Hewes, from West End residents to eradicate mosquitoes, 1919; Letters regarding a zoning ordinance, 1918; #2915: petition on Southern Pacific Company paper to let cars be tied up overnight at High Street, 1919; #2919: 1919 Resolution and correspondence pertaining to 5 topics requiring funds: 1. Help returned service people who are unemployed. 2. Establishment of a West End Library Branch & purchase of land; 3. Committee to evaluate YMCA branch; 4. Request federal funds to establish a Webster Street Branch Post Office. 5. Visit of Joesphus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy. City Clerk: R. E. Bosshard.; #2925: Alameda Improvement Club request for widening of Webster Street, 1919; #2930: Library Financial Report signed by Marcella Krauth pro tem and transfers of funds, 1919; #2936: appointment by Mayor Otis of George S. Williams to Board of Education, replacing George T. Morris, 1919; #2939: appointment by Mayor Otis of Brainard C. Brown to Library Trustees, succeeding late E. W. Maslin, 1919; #2948: lease to Barnes and Tibbitts, 1921; #2949: activities related the navy - boxing matches at Neptune Beach 1919-1920 and reception of Naval committee, 1920; #2959: Alameda Housewives League about ferry rates for children; #2964: petition to establish, and publication of request for bids for public ‘Comfort Stations’ on Webster, Park, and Lincoln, 1919. Not numbered: 1929 document and maps of Government Island for purchase by the government (as opposed to existing lease); and 1932 demolition of wrecked Government Island buildings for the unemployed; 1934 Letter from Bay Cities Yacht Harbor (next to Encinal Terminals), about continued unpermitted activities on government island (see 11.85.3); 1938 Attendee badge and Ribbon of C.R. Schwanenberg to the 4th Western Safety Conference in Los Angeles, 1938.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: December 21, 2011