Name/Title
Photograph surveyors charting out future Alameda Post Office, 1912Entry/Object ID
1973.8.25Description
ACC. NO. 73.8.25
SUBJ. CATEGORY: POST OFFICE
DATE OR PERIOD: 1912
OBJECT: PHOTOGRAPH OF ALAMEDA POST OFFICE
DESCRIPTION: PHOTOGRAPH (ORIGINAL). MOUNTED ON LINEN.
SIZE: 10" x 7½"
HISTORY OF OBJECT: THE PHOTOGRAPH IS FRAM A SERIES TAKEN OF THE ERECTION OF THE ALAMEDA POST OFFICE.
THIS PARTICULAR PHOTOGRAPH ILLUSTRATES A VIEW OF THE VACANT LOT, CORNER OF CENTRAL AND PARK AVENUE, ON WHICH THE ALAMEDA POST OFFICE NOW STANDS. SURVEYORS CAN BE SEEN CHARTING OUT LOT, AND IN DISTANCE CAN BE SEEN THE WATER WORKS BUILDING WITH ITS TOWER AND IRON CRESTING.
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
ACQUIRED FROM: POST OFFICE, CITY OF ALAMEDA AND MRS. PAULINE REYNOLDS
DATE: MAY 12, 1973
