Name/Title
Framed Photo of Major Tilden and others in a Pope Hartford Automobile, prior 1959Entry/Object ID
2009.49.1Description
ACC. NO. 09.49.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: CITIZENS OF ALAMEDA; TRANSPORTATION
DATE OR PERIOD:
OBJECT: PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED
DESCRIPTION:
A PALE SEPIA-TINTED PHOTOGRAPH, WITH AN OFF-WHITECOLORED MAP IN A CONTEMPORARY WOODEN FRAME WITH EBONIZED FINISH.
SIZE: L 9-1/4" X W 12-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
A PHOTOGRAPH OF MAJOR TILDEN AND FOUR UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN, PICTURED IN A POPE HARTFORD AUTOMOBILE. A HANDWRITTEN CAPTION ON THE MAP (IN INK) STATES, "MAJOR CL TILDEN IN A POPE HARTFORD AUTOMOBILE, THE FINEST CAR I EVER DROVE," AND INITIALS, "C LT." MAJOR TILDEN WAS A PROMINENT ALAMEDA CITIZEN AFTER WHOM TILDEN PARK AND TILDEN AVENUE (ALAMEDA ) WERE NAMED. THE FRAMED PHOTO WAS GIVEN TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY MARION MITCHELL, ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF MAJOR TILDEN. SHE DONATED THE PHOTO IN 1959; HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT CATALOGED UNTIL 2009.
DONOR: MARION MITCHELL
CATALOGED: AUGUST 15, 2009
