Name/Title
Drawing proposed Development "Alameda Acres", c. 1920sEntry/Object ID
1987.76.1Description
Acc. No. 87.76.1
Subject Category: Bay Farm Island
Date or Period. C. 1920's
Object: Print, framed
Description: Reproduced drawing (print) in natural wood frame accentuated with black stain. Print signed "Gibson Catlett, Los Angeles."
Size: L-12 3/4 x W-42¼ inches.
History of Object: Drawing of a proposed development (possible housing tract?) called "Alameda Acres," Bay Farm Island, Alameda. In the distance is a section labeled "Alameda Naval Base Site."
Note:
Illustration depicting a proposed development scheme for Bay Farm Island, Alameda, entitled "Alameda Acres." Also included is an unusually shaped proposed "Alameda Naval Base" site.
Acquired from: Arthur & Catherine Ray
Date: 10-10-1987Interpretative Labels
Label
"Premature" proposals
for Alameda development
that were largely realized
many years later.
An aerial view of Alameda
that shows a proposed site
for a Naval Air Base in the
West End and a proposed
enlargement of Bay Farm
Island. Dated March, 1921.
[Plans for a proposed South
Shore development made
during the term of the City
Manager, Ralph Bryant, who
served from 1932 to 1935.]
