Name/Title
Photographic record of WPA projects, 1934-1939Entry/Object ID
2011.33.3Description
Acc. No. 11.33.3
Subject Category: City of Alameda; Depression, WPA
Date or Period: 1934-1939
Object: Book, portfolio of Photographs
Description: Heavy paper cover with pseudo leather look, and black alligator-skin looking plastic spine covering, with hand-written caption: PHOTOGRAPHS. First pages contain black and white photos mounted on tan inside paper pages with captions, with additional loose photos tucked inside, especially in later.
Size: L 12" x W 8 1/2".
History of Object: Photographs of W.P.A. projects around the island. and grading of Government Island. In sequence:
0. Two pictures of WPA workers, Jan. 1934; 1. Wind storm Feb 10, 1938; Paru Street and Dayton Avenue; 2. Wind storm Feb 10, 1938 Hibbard Street at Lincoln; 3. Sanitary sewer, Dayton Avenue between Grand & Paru street (WPA 8279); 4. Tree Removal March 15 1938 (WPA7658); 5-13. Government Island March 15, 1938 to September 7, 1938, (WPA 8571); 14. Fire alarm system, June 1938 (WPA 8458); 15. Sanitary Sewer - Otis Drive Sept. 7, 1938 (WPA 8918-A); 16. -21. Bleachers McKinley Park October 26-December, 1938 (WPA 8894-B). Loose photos: 21 (Bleachers); 22, 23. Machine Shop Corporation Yard, March 28, 1939 (WPA 10,734); 24, 25. Sanitary Sewer or sidewalk pavement project, location unknown; 26; building a small building, location unknown; 27. Sanitary Sewer or sidewalk pavement project, location unknown.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date: June 25, 2011
