Name/Title
Jug of Wm Radams Microbe Killer, from a dump site on Atlantic before 1998Entry/Object ID
1998.66.1Description
ACC. NO. 98.66.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: HOUSEHOLD
DATE OR PERIOD: UNKNOWN
OBJECT: JUG
DESCRIPTION:
OFF-WHITE-COLORED EARTHENWARE JUG, WITH APPLIED HANDLE. UPPER PART OF JUG HAS EMBOSSED CAPTION, "WM RADAMS MICROBE KILLER." BASE HAS NO MANUFACTURER'S MARK.
SIZE: H 11-1/2" X D 7"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
EARTHENWARE JUG DUG UP AT A DUMP SITE IN WEST ALAMEDA, ATLANTIC AVENUE, DURING GRADING FOR GOVERNMENT HOUSING, POSSIBLY IN THE EARLY 1940'S, BY LAWRENCE UCOVICH. MR UCOVICH WAS A HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR FOR THE CITY OF ALAMEDA IN THE LATE 1930'S AND EARLY 1940's. HE ALSO PERFORMED GRADING AT THE ALAMEDA GOLF COURSE.
ACQUIRED FROM:
RON UCOVICH
CATALOGED: JANUARY 10, 1998
