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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.
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Built in c. 1862 under the auspices of Burchard Villiger, S.J., President of Santa Clara College from 1861-1865, the Faculty Residence was a four-story wooden structure with a foundation located on the former residence of the Fransiscan...
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Timothy P. Connolly, '30, SCU Student body president, with William C. Gianera, S.J., Dean of Faculty, and Henry C. Miller, superintendent of construction, at groundbreaking for Nobili Hall. Nobili hall was completed in 1930.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Construction; Buildings; Santa Clara (Calif.)
Construction of St. Joseph's Hall. The building employed steel and reinforced concrete and introduced a type of Mission Revival architecture to the campus.
Gliders (Aeronautics); Maloney, Daniel John; Montgomery, John J. (John Joseph), 1858-1911; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara College (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology; Transportation;
John J. Montgomery, in bowler hat, prepares his glider, “Santa Clara.” Pilot Daniel Maloney, dressed in tights, stands at center of photo. Montgomery, an alumnus of Santa Clara, was the first American to fly a heavier-than-air machine. He...
Drawings; Education; Fruit; Mission Santa Clara; Poetry; Prunes; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; University of Santa Clara
Poem by Santa Clara University English professor Henry Louis Walsh called "The Prune." Walsh was a Catholic priest who wrote the forty-one quatrain poem in 1935. It is comprised of nine pages.
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Black-and-white photograph of faculty member Henry Nettesheim and graduate student Gus Burzio working on the RAMAC 305A digital computer, circa 1963. The RAMAC 305A with a RAMAC 350 storage device, made by IBM, was one of the earliest computers.
College buildings; Education; Mission Santa Clara; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara College (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916;
From left, the Jesuit Faculty Residence, Mission Church, John Nobili, S.J.’s Gothic Chapel, the Science Building in the background, and the California Hotel at Santa Clara College, circa 1865. On verso: "In 1861 the mission church was...
