Name/Title
Photo Portraits of various policemen, c. 1900sEntry/Object ID
1997.53.1Description
Acc. No. 97.53.1 (a-h)
Subject Category: Police Department
Date or Period: Ca. 1900's
Object: Photographs
Description: Dark sepia-toned photos mounted on charcoal or grey paperboard. Photographer unknown. These oval photos have had their mounting severely cropped down to the actual images. #g and #h have old cataloging labels glued to their top edge, and #a has a strip of Scotch tape adhering diagonally across it.
Size: L-5 x W–3 1/2 in.
History of Object: Portraits of various Alameda policemen: a) Officer Welch; b) Officer Louis W. Schroeder; c) Officer Moebus; d) Officer Anderson; e) Officer Edw. A. Willing; f) Officer Arthur S. Blunke; g) Officer Joe Lawrence (old cat. #18X); h) Sgt. Albert Kemp (old cat. #25).
Acquired from: Unknown
Date: 1/25/97
Pre-1971 donation, old cat. #'s noted above.