Alvarado Salt Works

From "Photographs of the Alameda County Salt Industry"
California Historical Society
This from CDLIB

The full series of photos are at the California Historical Society.

Pictures of ships, windmills, workers. It just dries you out looking at all that salt!















References

• Sanborn maps from LOC in Color: there are 4 for Alvarado in 1896.
• Alvarado was the first county seat of Alameda County after it was formed in 1853. The sugar and salt industries were a big employer.
  • This paper on Alvarado's Chinatown / Little Tijuana is a good starting point for further research.
  • The full book Alvarado Beet Factory by Tim Swenson.
  • Analysis of Census Records by Tim Swenson
  • More photos are available at the Museum of Local History, such as the one above. Others from the 1880's.
  • "Chinese quarters" are listed on this Sanborn map. 
  • "Chinese shanties" on this one. what was a shanty in 1896? 
  • Chinese were run out of Alvarado p. 297 in the Centennial Yearbook of Alameda County