Name/Title
Letter to Mayor Weichhart about the Hawaiian Clipper flight, 1937Entry/Object ID
1998.313.1Description
ACC. NO. 98.313.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: AVIATION
DATE OR PERIOD: 1937
OBJECT: LETTER
DESCRIPTION:
TYPEWRITTEN LETTER ON STATIONERY WITH CAPTION IN RED-COLORED TYPE, STATING "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG." THE LETTER HAS BEEN GLUED TO A CARDBOARD BACKING.
SIZE: L 7-1/2" X W 7-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
LETTER, DATED MAY 6, 1937, TO THE HONORABLE HENRY A WEICHHART, MAYOR, CITY OF ALAMEDA. FROM (SIGNATURE IS ILLEGIBLE), OFFICER ADMINISTRATOR, OF THE GOV'T. THE LETTER ACKNOWLEDGES A SCROLL FROM THE ALAMEDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND COPY OF A SPEECH GIVEN BY THE MAYOR ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEPARTURE OF THE "HAWAIIAN CLIPPER" ON APRIL 29, 1937. THE CLIPPER LEFT ALAMEDA FROM THE ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STATION.
NOTE:
OBJECT WAS GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRIOR TO 1971 AND NOT OFFICIALLY CATALOGED AT THAT TIME.
DONOR:
UNKNOWN
CATALOGED: OCTOBER 3, 1998