Name/Title
Promotional booklet, 'Alameda County, its Industries and Environs', 1904Entry/Object ID
2021.88.3Description
Acc. No. 21.88.3
Subject Category: History of Alameda
Date or Period: 1904
Object: Publication
Description: publication with image on the front cover of a colorful painting of a fanciful arbor with view over a body of water towards a city with hills beyond, titled 'Alameda . County California'. Inside cover states the same, and 'Its Industries and Environs'.
Size: L 10 x W 6 3/4 inches.
History of Object: Booklet published in 1904 by order of Theodore Gier, W. H. Weilbye and Wilber Walker, commissioners of Alameda County to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by authority of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, and endorsed by The Merchants Exchange of Oakland, 1904. Mentions Alameda City in one paragraph 4 pages beyond the center; and again 10 pages further (beneath mention of Berkeley).
Acquired from: Ashley P. Gilanfarr
Catalog Date: September 8, 2021
