Name/Title
Advertising color glass plate negatives, c. 1920s-1930sEntry/Object ID
2023.44.1Description
Acc. No. 23.44.1 A-E
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda
Date or Period: 1920s
Object: Glass plate negatives
Description: 5 color glass plate negatives, each wrapped along all edges with a band of wood-textured paper. All have 'New Alameda Market', A to D in a classic type, E in art deco type. Maker of A to D is ‘J.N. Daniel Company’, E is ‘Screen Art Studio’, both in San Francisco. A and B show an illustration of a chicken in side view and groceries, C an interior with vegetables or fruit in crates, D shows an exterior view. E shows an interior view with rows of butchered and plucked fowl on the wall.
Size: L 3 1/4" x W 4"
History of Object: Glass plate negatives used by John Emmanuel Damianakes to advertise his 'New Alameda Market', 1323-1325 Park Street, at the Nickelodeon in Neptune Beach. The Neptune Theater opened in the summer of 1920 and closed when Neptune Beach closed in 1939. Damianakes (1881-1863) moved as a young man from Greece in 1904, and, after working as a clerk at a business at 1354 Park for P.E. Damianakes until around 1910, set up his own business around 1914, after having gotten married in Greece. Initially he operated at 2408 Santa Clara, later 1430 Park Street, and finally, from 1924 to at least 1941, at 1323-1325 Park Street. The business at 1354 Park St. was listed (in 1925) as 'the Alameda Fruit Market', perhaps this was the inspiration for the name.
Acquired From: Dave Damianakes
Donation Date: November 20, 2023;
Catalog Date: November 25, 2023
