Name/Title
Alameda High School Diploma Edith Fox, 1894Entry/Object ID
2025.52.2Description
Acc. No. 25.52.2
Subject Category: Schools, Alameda High
Date or Period: 1894
Object: Diploma, framed
Description: Lithographic certificate with bold printed caption "Alameda High School" with by hand in ink in Gothic letters: Edith S. Fox. Further information blanks inscribed in ink, by hand. Images include a thee-story building with cupola, a steam train, view of a shoreline with schooner and steamship, and women dressed in classical or medieval dress, involved in oratory, writing, holding both a painter’s palette and a harp, and cartography. Document is matted, behind glass, and in original gold-painted wood and gesso frame, with backing partially with thin wood planks with evidence of woodworm, and partially only newspaper. An off-white silk ribbon is also behind the glass.
Lithograph produced by Geo H. Baker S.F.
Size: (frame) L-26 1/2 x W-21 1/2 inches.
History of Object:
1894 Alameda High School diploma of Edith Fox. Edith was family of Percy Fox, who was a member of the early postal service.
Acquired from: James Andrew Loberg
Donation Date: 2/3/2022
Catalog Date: 3/11/2025
