Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Alum Rock Park Falls; Automobiles; Bicycles; Bridges; Buildings; Camping; Carts & wagons--American--California--Saratoga; Congress Springs; Foothills; Lick Observatory; Mount Hamilton Range (Calif.); Nature;...
1. Picnic at Congress Springs (page 85 in scrapbook) 2. Driving first spike in Peninsular Electric railroad between Palo Alto and San Jose (page 146 in scrapbook) 3. Four photos (page 164 in scrapbook)-- a) North First Street Elks Bldg., b) Santa...
"This unique piece of apparatus uses Lissajous figures to show that the ratio of the frequency ratios in a diatonic scale are ratios of small numbers. On the side is an air-driven vibrating reed with a small mirror attached to its free end....
A hydrometer measures the specific gravity of a liquid relative to water. Nicolson's hydrometer differs from other hydrometers in being totally submerged in use.
Carriages & coaches--American--California--San Jose; Old City Hall (San Jose, Calif.); People; Postcards; Public buildings; San Jose (Calif.)--Electric Light Tower; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Urban life; Urban parks;
Artist's rendition of San Jose City Hall and surrounding area in 1912. Addressed to "Mrs. C. Alvin Long, Stockton, Cal." Postmarked "May 24 1912."
Automobiles; Buildings; Carriages & coaches--American--California--San Jose; Horses; Lamolle House; People; Restaurants; Postcards; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology; Thomas Flyer; Transportation; Urban life;
Artist's rendition of the arrival of the Thomas Flyer, March 24, 1908, New York to Paris Race at the Lamolle House, San Jose, Calif. Postcard is unused.
California--History--1800-1850; Diversity; Indians of North America ; Mission Period; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
August 3, 1808 document from Jose Maria Estudillo in Monterey to the Commissioner of the town of San Jose. Estudillo urges kindness and fair treatment of the "heathen" Indians who are to be brought in to help with the current harvest,...
African Americans; Student activism; Student newspapers and periodicals; San Jose State University
B&W newspaper photo from The Spartan Daily, of black protesters trying to prevent the Survival Faire car burial.
[original negative could not be located in Spartan Daily Negatives]
Flags--American; People; Photographs; Restaurants; Saddlerock Restaurant; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Wine;
Black-and-white photograph of a banquet scene at the Saddlerock Restaurant in Santa Clara, circa 1910. On verso of photo: "The old Frank Bldg. on Franklin St -- between Main and Washington (on the north side of Franklin St.)."
Buildings; Carriages & coaches--American--California--Santa Clara; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Trolley cars; Urban life;
Black-and-white photograph of a streetcar on Franklin Street, Santa Clara, California, 1898.
Camping; Camp sites, facilities, etc.; Children; Cupertino (Calif.); Girls; Merithew, Joseph C.; Nature; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Trees; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of Captain Merithew's Camp on Stevens Creek, circa 1890. Written on the back of the photograph, "He enjoyed flying the American flag."
Agnews State Hospital (San Jose, Calif.); Buildings; Carriages & coaches--American--California--San Jose; Earthquakes; People; Photographs; Ruins; San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation;
Black-and-white photograph of earthquake damage at Agnews Asylum in 1906. Note: Santa Clara City Library Collection includes a book, "Santa Clara County Pioneer Papers 1973" with a chapter on "The Earthquake of April 18, 1906 in the...
