Name/Title
Wooden level, from the collection of John Ucovich, early 1900sEntry/Object ID
2025.110.19Description
Acc. No. 25.110.19
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda, Citizens of Alameda
Date or Period: early 1900s
Object: tool
Description: Large wooden level with horizontal and vertical level bubbles secured with metal nails, and a hole in the center and a rounded notch on either side.
Original tag was unreadable due to damage, assumed to be U19.
Inscribed “JSB” in a circle on one end.
Size: approx. 20” W by 2” T
History of Object: metal tool, part of a collection of carpentry tools, owned by John Ucovich (presumed), an immigrant carpenter from Montenegro. John Ucovich moved to Alameda around 1925, and ran a trucking business in Oakland. By 1938 John (aged 61) lived with his wife, Myrtle May, at 775 Santa Clara. He died as the result of injuries sustained after being run over by a streetcar on March 28, 1938.
Acquired from: Ron Ucovich
Donation Date: before 2018
Catalog Date: 12/1/2025
