The Varian Associates was a high tech company founded by Russell and Sigurd Varian. Left to right: Russell Varian, Sigurd Varian, Marvin Chodorow, Dorothy Varian, Dick Leonard, Ester Salisbury, Ed Ginston, Fred Salisbury, Don Snow, and H. Myrl...
The artist made this painting based on Moses Schallenberger's description of his cabin at Truckee Lake Camp (today known as Donner Lake). He described it as a windowless cabin twelve by fourteen feet, covered with rawhide and brush as a roof, with...
Buildings; Houses--California--San Jose; Mount Hamilton Range (Calif.); Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; St. James Park;
Black-and-white photograph taken from the dome of the Santa Clara County Courthouse looking east toward the snow covered Mt. Hamilton Mountain Range of San Jose during the winter of 1880. On verso of photo: "St. James Park in foreground."