Name/Title
Bound editions of the EncinalEntry/Object ID
2024.35.2Description
Acc. No. 24.35.2
Subject Category: Newspapers
Date or Period: 1869-1904
Objects: Books, newspapers, The Encinal
Description: books, hard-cover, with either leather or leather-look buckram cover, or marbleized paper over cardboard with reinforced corners, of full-page newspapers, with on the masthead 'The Encinal' and on the spine of bound books, 'The Encinal' and a period. Many have a label inside specifying a donor.
The 1869 books include editions of the Alameda Post; one book a copy from September 21, 1869, both books, a copy of November 1, 1869.
Sizes: varying, between (largest) L 25 3/4” x W 19 1/2” x 1 1/4” thick and (smallest) L 23 3/4” x W 17 1/4 x 1 1/2”
History of Objects: Bound Editions of the Alameda Encinal, in variations of that name. It claimed to be the oldest paper in Alameda County.
The paper was first published as weekly paper in September of 1869, with Fred. K. Krauth editor and owner, subheading ‘the Pioneer press’, or ‘the Pioneer Newspaper’. It became the Alameda Semi-Weekly Encinal on September 14, 1888, and as of 3/23/1891, it was published every afternoon as the Alameda Daily Evening Encinal. The publisher changed to George F. Weeks in February 1897, later aided by son(s). After the murder of one of the sons, Weeks left for Mexico for health reasons. Wife Annie and son Charles tried to keep the paper going, but it changed hands to J.S. Mc Dowell in November 1906, then ceased.
Date of donation is unknown, at least before 2019. Donated to the Alameda Museum by the Alameda Free Library, donors mentioned in inside labels had paid for the binding.
Donor: Alameda Free Library
Donation date: unknown, or various; Catalog Date: 4/19/2024