Santa Clara University (Calif.);Debates; Student organizations
Interior of Debating Hall. The Philalethic Debating Society, formed in 1856, was the first collegiate debating society modeled after the national legislature in Washington.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Buildings
Santa Clara College as seen around 1895. Students are gathered on Fr. Cunningham's Sodality Ball Park. California Hotel can be seen dimly behind trees. A common form of recreation for special occasions was the organized Field Day held in the open...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Mission churches;
The interior of the Mission Church as it appeared after several remodels.The altar, reredos and sanctuary-ceiling painting date from the Mission period.
The 130-bed senior dormitory was located on the first floor of the Ship. The term "senior" refers to the collegiate students who lived there as opposed to the high school students who slept elsewhere.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara
This image is one of the earliest images of Mission Santa Clara, after 1855. The adobe wall extends from the Baptistry to the arch of old gate to Major Domo Ignacio Alviso's headquarters. The building at right, known as California Hotel, was a...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); ; Santa Clara (Calif.); Buildings; Mission Santa Clara
Santa Clara College showing, from left, Jesuit Faculty Residence, Mission Church, Nobili's Gothic Chapel, the Science Building in the background, and the California Hotel.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.);
Mission Church as it appeared after an Italianate Victorian façade of wood with two matching towers was laid over its original adobe front in 1861. The California Hotel with its second floor Debating Hall can also be seen.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings;
Image of adobe outbuilding of third site of Mission Santa Clara. The building was an Indian family's apartment that was taken over by Yankee squatters.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Jails; Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings
This was the oldest jail in California built on the old Gardner property after the second Mission Santa Clara site was erected near the present Santa Clara depot in 1818. The structure was razed on January 12, 1922. This image was taken as workmen...