Canneries; Women; Working class; Pear; Assembly-line methods
Women halving pears and removing their seeds in preparation for canning. Heavy duty gloves protect their hands from their sharp tools. They also wear aprons and caps over their street clothes. The workers stand at their stations along the assembly...
Agriculture; Campbell (Calif.); Ephemera; Handbills; Propaganda; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
There are three pages of printed material: Two pages are dated "Nov. 4, 1910." One is to the "Superintendent of Public Instruction," the other "To the Officers and Members of Local No......., Farmers E. & C. U. of A.,...
Fishing; People; Photographs; Richards, W. W.; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Waddell Creek;
Black-and-white photograph of "West Fork, Waddell Creek, 1.5 miles below "Kelly's Cabin." Also, #86 at lower right, and "W.W.R." at lower right below photograph. W.W. Richards is fishing in the photo.
Water wagon on Big Basin Road, driver with 6 horses. Written on the back: 'Driver Batista 'Bat' Mevin(?) uncle of Mrs. Ralph Bronzich, Saraatoga. Water wagon on Big Basin Road, a tough job in the hills. Horses owned by Hubbard & Carmichael.'
Aerial views; San Jose (Calif.); Churches; Bank of San Jose; Music Hall; St. James Park
The photograph show an aerial view looking northeast from the top of the Electric Light Tower. Building next to Music Hall is the Bank of San Jose at Santa Clara and First Streets. Churches: Trinity Episcopal (left), Presbyterian (middle), M-E...
Automobiles; Buildings; Business enterprises; Diversity; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Urban life; Vietnamese Americans; Vietnamese businesses;
Black-and-white photograph of Vietnamese American shopping area, San Jose, 1987.
Earthquakes; Hotels; Hotel Vendome; Postcards; Ruins; San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Note on picture side of postcard, "There were many private houses as bad as this but they are taking them all down and will build new ones." Addressed to "Mrs. May E. Graham, Bullion, Placer County, California."
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...
This landscape is perhaps one of the finest examples of the Hudson River School style. The Hudson River School refers to the first group of American landscape painters. They worked in studios near the mouth of the Hudson River between 1825 and...
Kottinger, Annie; Kottinger, Maggie; Kottinger, Martha; Burnett; Eva Kottinger; Painting; Women
Annie, Maggie and Martha Kottinger, the artist's sisters. This is a particularly lovely portrait that illustrates in great detail the clothing and jewelry of the period. It is also refreshing to see these women relaxed, each in a distinctive pose,...
Animals; Cows; Landscape paintings; Paintings; Rivers; Streams; Hill, Andrew Putnam
These bucolic scenes of grazing cattle are not only beautiful, but create a visual historic record of the Santa Clara Valley landscape in the nineteenth century.
Buildings; Horses; Postcards; Palo Alto (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation;
Written below artist's rendition on front of postcard, "Just the [time?] for an auto ride on a pleasant day. I tried it, girlie." Also on front, at left edge: "Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco." On verso: Postcard...
