copyrighted Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room Copyright, Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library
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Alice is the daughter of Jacob Albert (1871-1946), pioneer merchant and civic leader of San Rafael. This interview was recorded at her residence in Greenbrae. Alice, who is a native Californian, tells of her father's arrival in Marin in 1892, a peddler from Lithuania with no money, but a strong desire to succeed. He died 50 years later with a multi-million dollar fortune. She relates how her father started the first dry goods store in San Rafael, known as the Wonder Store, how he built the first office building, known as the Albert Building, and how he donated land for a park and gave a building to the Marin Boy Scouts. He was founder of Albert's Department stores, located in San Rafael, Napa, Richmond, and Mill Valley. From 1974 to 1984, Carla Ehat, with partner Anne Kent, and later Genevieve Martinelli, interviewed a broad spectrum of Marin County's long-time residents, from ranchers to politicians, including descendants of early pioneer families. This program was co-sponsored by the Marin County Free Library and the Moya Library in Ross. The resulting archive, consisting of nearly 300 recordings and their corresponding transcriptions, are housed in the Anne T. Kent California Room at the Civic Center branch of the Marin County Free Library.
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