Eye examination; Optometry; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of an optometrist, equipped with a variety of optometry instruments, giving a woman an eye examination with a female assistant at right.
Large astronomical telescopes; Lick Observatory; Mount Hamilton Range (Calif.); Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology; Telescope eyepieces;
Black-and-white photograph of Lick Observatory Telescope Eye Piece taken July 4, 1888.
Daguerreotypes; Ford, James P.; Mission Santa Clara; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
This daguerreotype, taken circa 1854 by James Ford, is the earliest known photograph of Santa Clara. The mission cross stands in the front of the church; to the left is the east wing of the mission quadrangle. The bell tower has been encased in...