SCU Digital Collections

- Portrait of Saturino Ayon with Diploma, 1866
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Students
- Saturino Ayon, graduating senior from Mazatlan, Mexico, stands beside his diploma in 1866. He was that year's sole graduate.
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- Portrait of Michael Accolti, S.J. Co-Founder of Santa Clara College, c. 1854
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Accolti Gil, Michele, 1807-1878; Jesuits
- Seated portrait of Michael Accolti, S.J., prior to his death in 1856.
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- Santa Clara College Baseball Team, c. 1870
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Baseball players; Students; sports
- Team portrait of early Santa Clara baseball team, c. 1870
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- Portrait of Aloysius Varsi, S.J.
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Varsi, Aloysius, S.J., 1830-1900; Jesuits
- Aloysius Varsi fled revolutionary Italy in 1848, joined Santa Clara faculty in 1864 and served as president of the College from 1868 to 1876.
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- Horse-Car on the Alameda, January, 1869
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Transportation; San Jose (Calif.);
- Horse-car on tree-line Alameda near University Avenue. In the 1860's, The Alameda remained the chief link between the towns of Santa Clara and San Jose. Passengers could ride the horse-car for a dime.
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- Science Building and Commercial Building, 1890
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Buildings;
- Science Building and Commercial Building from across the College courtyard. The yard in front was reserved for recreation use for day students. On the far left was located a classroom dubbed Letter A. Here errant students completed penalties...
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- Portrait of Students Manuel Torres and Charles Graves
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Students;
- Torres attended SCC 1862-67, and Graves attended 1867-70. Text on verso, "How is this for high."
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- Students' Dining Hall, 1863
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Dining rooms; Buildings
- The students' dining hall was an L-shaped structure occupied by vacant space between today's Adobe Lodge and the Mission Church.
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- College Band at the Campus Shrine of St. Joseph, March 19, 1879
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Students; Student Organizations; Bands
- College band gathers at the Shrine of St. Joseph for the anniversary of the founding of the college on St. Joseph's Day.
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- Three Students pose for a portrait, c.1865
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Students
- Portrait of students (l. to r.) Napoleon Vallejo, A. Sage, J. Rogers, '67-69.
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- Science Classroom
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Classrooms; Education; Students; Astronomy;
- A lithograph of the interior of a science classroom in session. A Jesuit is instructing the class in astronomy, using lantern slides.
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- Santa Clara Basketball Team, 1924
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Basketball players; Sports; Students
- Team portrait of the Santa Clara Basketball Team, 1924. Names include King Kong Mifsud and Mike Bu[ck]
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- Mission Santa Clara Façade, 1866
- 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.
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- Portrait of Aloysius Varsi, S.J. 1867
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Gardens; Varsi, Aloysius, S.J., 1830-1900;Jesuits; Muybridge, Edweard, 1830-1904
- Aloysius Varsi, S.J. president of Santa Clara College from 1868-1876, standing beside a newly planted palm tree in the Mission Gardens. The Administration Building is in the background.
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- The Old Laundry, 1878
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Laundries (Rooms & spaces);
- The steam-powered college laundry.
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- Portrait of Charles E. Messea, S.J.
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Jesuits
- Messea arrived in California in 1854, founded Santa Clara College's Science Departmtent, and purchased an impressive treasury of scientific instruments and minerals.
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- Portrait of Gregory Mengarini, S.J.
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Jesuits; Mengarini, Gregory, 1811-1886
- Gregory Mengarini served as treasurer and teacher of modern languages at Santa Clara College for nearly 30 years.
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- Saint Clare's Church Reredos
- Santa Clara University (Calif.); Altarpieces; Altars; Mission churches; Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927; Mission Santa Clara, Church interior;
- Sanctuary of Mission Santa Clara with Statue of St. Clare in center.
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- Mission Santa Clara Indian family apartment
- 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.
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- First jail in Santa Clara County
- 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...
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