Name/Title
Tool Chest of John Ucovich., 1900sEntry/Object ID
2025.77.1Description
Acc. No. 25.77.1
Subject Category: Tools; Businesses of Alameda, Carpenters
Date or Period: 1900s
Object: tool chest
Description: A wooden tool chest with removable storage trays and additional storage area in the lid, accessed via a fold-down panel. Brass handles and hinges. Appears hand-made by John Ucovich himself. A photo or postcard of a metal machine is affixed to the lid of the chest.
Size: Chest 14”H x 34”L x 18”W
Trays 7”H x 31”L x 3.5”W, 2.5”H x 31”L x 11”W
History of Object: Antique tool chest used by John Ucovich (1877-1938), grandfather of the donor, an immigrant carpenter from Montenegro. He 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.
Donation Date: 12/8/2018
Catalog Date: 6/6/2025
