Name/Title
Photograph - Men working on foundation Alameda Post Office, September 3, 1912Entry/Object ID
1973.8.1Description
ACC. NO. 73.8.1
SUBJ. CATEGORY: POST OFFICE
DATE OR PERIOD: 1912
OBJECT: PHOTOGRAPH OF ALAMEDA POST OFFICE
DESCRIPTION: PHOTOGRAPH (ORIGINAL). BACKED WITH LINEN.
SIZE: 8½" X 6½"
HISTORY OF OBJECT: THE PHOTOGRAPH IS FROM A SERIES TAKEN OF THE ERECTION OF THE ALAMEDA POST OFFICE.
THIS PARTICULAR PHOTOGRAPH ILLUSTRATES THE MEN WORKING ON THE FOUNDATION. TO THE LEFT OF THE PICTURE CAN BE SEEN THE WATER WORKS BUILDING.
ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH IS WRITTEN IN SCRIPT THIS INFORMATION:
U. S. POST OFFICE, ALAMEDA, CALIF., TAKEN SEPT 3, 1912. VIEW TAKEN FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER. Wm V. MURRAY, ENGINEER AND CONTRACTING CO.
PARK -CENTRAL POST OFFICE.
FIRST OCCUPIED-MARCH 31, 1914
CORNER STONE LAID-DECEMBER 21, 1912
LAND PURCHASED FROM CHARLES S. NEAL FOR $14,000.00
APPROPRIATION MADE BY CONGRESS, JUNE 1908.
COST OF POST OFFICE BUILDING-$101,495.00
ACQUIRED FROM:
POST OFFICE, CITY OF ALAMEDA AND MRS. PAULINE REYNOLDS,
DATE: MAY 12, 1973
