Name/Title
Folder with City documents, numbered 214-219, 1927-1932Entry/Object ID
2011.47.13Scope and Content
Acc. No. 11.47.13 A, B, C, D
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1927-1932
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free, legal size, manila file folders with papers marked on the back with sequence numbers.
L 9" x W 14 1/2"
History of Object: Refoldered documents found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s. Documents relate to:
A. #214, 1928-1932, requests for, and protests against, installing of electroliers. Includes (#214-6) a complaint on letterhead of A. Feldhammer, contractor, at 1004 Park Street.
B. #213, 1928, contract awarded to Hutchinson Company for improvement of part of Central Street; #216, 1928: approved petition, with blueprint, to close northern end of Bay Street; #218, 1928-1929: stenciling/painting of housenumbers on the curbs, with offer by John B. Hurton, painter, of No. 9 Garden Road.
C. #217, 1927-1931: requirement for houseboats and other shoreline structures to connect to City sewers, and a complaint from the Waterside-Thompson Improvement Club against the sewer dumping out into the Tidal Canal there, and proposals for sewage treatment. #217-10 is a survey by state Health dept. of California of Alameda's (and Oakland’s) sewer system, including clam digging activity (2 Chinese, 5 employees of a San Francisco firm).
D. #219, 1928-1932: handbills and advertising matter. Includes letterhead of Alameda Housewives League (#219-2), Park Street Merchants Association (#219-5), and Taxpayers League of Alameda (subtitled: Airport City of the World). Includes a draft ordinance, stating mail may still be delivered, and a sample of advertising matter.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date: Sept 3, 2011