Agricultural Park (San Jose, Calif.); Camp Terrell; National Guard of California; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Soldiers;
Black-and-white photograph of Company B, First Regiment National Guard of California. Soldiers are in dress uniforms with guests at camp reception. The regiment was based in San Francisco. Summer camp was at Camp Terrell, at the Agricultural Park...
Bands (Music); Musicians; Men; California National Guard; Brohaska, Fred; Lake, Will; Warner, Oscar; McMelkin, Pop; Conklin, Jim; Conterno, D.D.; Ingram, Tommy; Parsons, Charles; Laskey, Jesse; Dobson, D.D.
A photograph of the California National Guard, Fifth Regimental band. Names written on back, "Will Lake, Fred Brohaska, Oscar Warner, Ebert, Pop McMelkin, Jim Conklin, D.D. Conterno, director, Tommy Ingram, Jaffey (Fred?) Louis Nell (Knell?)...
Adobe buildings--California--Milpitas; Agriculture; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of "the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe, built in 1837 and enlarged in the early 1850s, stands as an excellent example of the Monterey style of architecture popularized throughout California in the 1830s and 1840s. It is the...
Alaska; Aniakchak volcano; Jesuits; Mass; Nature; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; University of Santa Clara; Volcanoes;
Black-and-white photograph of Fr. Hubbard, the "Glacier Priest," saying Mass in Aniakchak Crater, Alaska. This image was eliminated by National Geographic from one of Fr. Hubbard's lectures. He refused to go on until it was put back in...
Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930; Men; Portraits
James Duval Phelan was born in San Francisco, April 20, 1861. He graduated from St. Ignatius College (now the University of San Francisco) in 1881 and studied law at the University of California in Berkeley. Phelan became a partner in the banking...
Political leaflet satirizing the perceived arrogance and utopianism of Upton Sinclair, candidate for governor of California, 1934 and his E.P.I.C. plan.
Electric utilities; Landscape photography--California; San Jose (Calif.);
B&W photograph of an older photograph of the Electric Tower in San Jose. Inscription reads: "3147 - Santa Clara Street and Electric Tower, San Jose, California. Looking west from First National bank Building."
Alaska; Hubbard, Bernard Rosecrans, 1888-1962; Caldera; Photographs; University of Santa Clara
Katmai Caldera- first complete panorama pieced together- publication of picture in S.F. Examiner caused an unpleasant incident with National Geographic Society in which they came out second best!
This instrument allowed water to be heated to a temperature higher than boiling point at atmospheric pressure, resulting in considerably high pressure inside. Papin designed a model of a digester in 1680 that allowed a piston inside a cylinder to...
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.
In this demonstration apparatus, water pours into the top section of the central rotor, pivoting freely about its axis. The two pipes projecting from the bottomof the rotor are closed at the end but with a rearward-facing hole. The rotor spins as...
"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....
