Name/Title
Correspondence about the Electric Light Plan, 1931-1933Entry/Object ID
2012.6.3Description
Accession No. 12.6.3 (A-E)
Subject Category: City of Alameda; Electric Light Plant / Public Utilities
Date or Period: 1931-33
Object: Papers
Description: Collection of papers, some grouped with staples. Includes letters on stationery of the Park Street Merchants (A; signed by president Walt A. Flanagan and secretary S. Chesley Anderson); the Chamber of Commerce (B), Municipal Electric Light and Power, Board of Public Utilities, and (in C) J. H. Baxter & Co.
History of Object:
Letters to City Manager Pierson (1931) and Bryant (1932-1933) relating to the Electric Light Plant. A&B (1931) letters are about (timing) of lighting of Park Street; C. reflects a complaint from J. H. Baxter & Co, who had a creosote pole treatment yard in Alameda, and was angered when the ELP bought cheap poles from an off-island source. D. reports removal of poles near the golf course, and informs of communications with Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Oakland, and Great Western Power Company of California.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: February 18, 2012