Name/Title
Lisle Lace stockings from the Dietz sisters, c. 1900Entry/Object ID
1983.53.2Description
ACC. NO. 83.53.2 (a) and (b)
SUBJECT CATEGORY: Clothing
DATE OR PERIOD: c. 1900 (late)
OBJECT: Stockings
DESCRIPTION: Black Lisle lace. One pair: (a) and (b)
Size: 26 1/2" long.
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
Stockings belonged to either the Misses E. L. or M. A. Dietz, founders of Sunny Cove Baths, Alameda (1881). These ladies came to Alameda from Oakland where their brother had founded the Dietz Opera House. Sunny Cove Beach ran up to the 1950's, The Dietz ladies were the great aunts of the donor. Paden School is now on the former site of Sunny Cove Baths.
ACQUIRED FROM: Marjorie Fraley
DATE: December 10, 1983
