May 2, 2015: Marin City Community Photo Album Day

by Laurie Thompson

Celebrating First Communion, Marin City, 1946. Anne T. Kent California Room Collection.

Join the Anne T. Kent California Room and the to celebrate National Preservation Week on Saturday, May 2, 2015 from 1–4 at the Marin City Library.

Bring up to 3 photographs related to Marin City history and we will scan them for our online community photograph album and give you copies of your scans to take home on a thumb drive.

SS Mission Purisima, a T-2 tanker built at Marinship, Marin County, during a trial run on November 5, 1943. Anne T. Kent California Room Collection.

Local author and historian Marilyn L. Geary will present “Voices of Marin City” based on her book Marin City Memories at 1:30 pm.

Browse through our digital Marinship and Marin City albums. If you can provide additional insight into any of these images, please add your insights to our “comments” field.

Depicted here is Marin City community leader Jesse E. Berry and his wife Flossie, circa 1963, in front of their new home, part of the Marin City redevelopment project which replaced delapidated World War II-era housing with new, modern structures.

Jesse Berry was instrumental in helping shape post-World War II Marin City. He organized the Marin City branch of the NAACP, served on the Marin City Tenant Council and also on the the boards of the Marin County Redevelopment Agency, Community Services District and Sausalito School District.

A University of Illinois graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, Berry first came to Marin to work on Marinship during World War II and subsequently made Marin City his home.

Marian Anderson entertains Marinship workers and guests, Marin County, February 19, 1943. Anne T. Kent California Room Collection.

Originally published at https://annetkent.kontribune.com.