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Title: Lester J. Bodin papers
Dates: 1904-1926
Collection number: MS 171
Collector:
Bodin, Lester J.
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Lester J. Bodin Papers include photographs, union membership cards, certificates, and yearbooks. Certificates consist
of a certificate of promotion from Clawson School and a vaccination certificate from the Oakland Health Department.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Lester J. Bodin Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Lester J. Bodin papers, MS 171, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
The collection was donated to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland in 1990.
Processed by Carl Schmitz, September 23, 2014. Finding aid edited by Sean Heyliger on January 6, 2015 addition of union membership
cards(Accession 2016-011).
Biography / Administrative History
Lester J. Bodin was born in Alameda, California, on June 18, 1910, the eldest son of William and Ida Bodin. Bodin is listed
in the 1940 census as a stock clerk for a canning company. Bodin would become president of the Cannery Workers’ Union, leadership
training chairman for the Live Oak District of the Boy Scouts of America, president of the Kiwanis Club of Jack London Square,
and was active in the Eastbay Radio Club. Bodin passed away in Oakland on November 28, 1993.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Lester J. Bodin Papers include photographs, union membership cards, certificates, and yearbooks. Certificates consist
of a certificate of promotion from Clawson School and a vaccination certificate from the Oakland Health Department. The papers
are arranged into four series: photographs, union membership cards, certificates, and yearbooks. Included in certificates
and yearbooks are items pertaining to Bodin’s sisters, Audrey and Florence. The collection documents schools in Oakland during
the 1920s.
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Union membership cards
Series III. Certificates
Series IV. Yearbooks
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Bodin, Lester J.
High school yearbooks.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History.
African Americans--California--History.
Oakland Tribune, Dec. 3, 1965, p. 10.
Oakland Tribune, Nov. 22, 1970, p. K12.
Oakland Tribune, July 2, 1976, p. 25.