Alma Street; Painting; People; Portraits; Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito; Rancho Santa Rita; Robles, Don Teodoro;
A portrait of Don Theodoro Robles. In 1824 Secundino and his younger brother Teodoro Robles were the first non-Indians to discover cinnabar deposits. By 1845, when these deposits proved to be rich in quicksilver, Secundino and Teodoro received...
"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....
Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Alum Rock Park Falls; Automobiles; Bicycles; Bridges; Buildings; Camping; Carts & wagons--American--California--Saratoga; Congress Springs; Foothills; Lick Observatory; Mount Hamilton Range (Calif.); Nature;...
1. Picnic at Congress Springs (page 85 in scrapbook) 2. Driving first spike in Peninsular Electric railroad between Palo Alto and San Jose (page 146 in scrapbook) 3. Four photos (page 164 in scrapbook)-- a) North First Street Elks Bldg., b) Santa...
McKiernan, Charles Henry; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Santa Cruz County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white portrait of Charles Henry "Mountain Charley" McKiernan. McKiernan was one of the first white settlers in the Santa Cruz mountains, and was noted for having survived an attack by a grizzly bear.
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.)
""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...
