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."
Reid, Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph), 1823-1904; United States, Civil War, 1861-1865; Danks, John; Letters;
A letter from John Danks to Bernard J. Reid. Danks is applying for a pension from the government due to injury during the Civil War. Danks needs to find a person who witnessed his wounding during battle, and hopes Reid can help in that matter.
Church vestments; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Chasuble, colorful flat silk ground and long stitch flat silk floral embroidery on ivory satin with gold thread stitching. The Chasuble is the outer-most vestment worn by bishops and priests at Mass. The original form of this vestment was a...
Community health aides; Cooking; Cooking vessels; Influenza--United States--History--20th century; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); San Jose State Normal School; San Jose State University; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Urban life;...
Black-and-white photograph of masked San Jose State Normal School volunteers preparing food during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
St. Joseph's Hall under construction as seen from Alviso St., with a sign on the outside wall naming W.D. Shea as architect and David Elms Graham as contractor
2 photographic views of Bob Coward, halfback and captain of the Broncos football team from 1896-98, as an invalid from spinal injuries suffered during a game
Buildings; Business enterprises; Chinese restaurants; Construction equipment; Diversity; Jose Theatre; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Urban life
Black-and-white photograph of First Street during San Jose Light Rail construction in 1987.
Arguello, Concepcion, 1791-1857; Combs; Mantilla; Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich, 1764-1807; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Shawls;
Concepcion Arguello was 15 in 1806 when she met the Russian Count Nicolai Rezanov, Chamberlain to the Czar while he was in San Francisco. After a three week courtship, they became engaged. An official of the royal court, he had to return to...
Church vestments; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Chasuble, dark pink (faded red?) brocade. Front and back are inset with long panels of red and gold brocade edged in gold strips. Neck and edges trimmed with gold braid. Lined with beige cloth. Found with metal-edged tag "VIII.10" The...
Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Calif.); Documents; Forest conservation; Hill, Andrew Putnam, 1853-1922; Redwoods; Reunions; Richards, W. W.; Santa Cruz County (Calif.)--History; Sempervirens Club of California; People;
Document written by W.W. Richards ("a Charter Member") covering the years 1900-1927 (for their 27th reunion). Andrew P. Hill was the "Father of [the] Sempervirens Club," and this document was part of an album containing all of...
Electronic industries; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Quality assurance; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Spin/Rinse dryers; Technicians; Technology; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of a Spin/Rinse dryer. Spin/rinse dryers were used to in the etching process. The 2-inch wafers of the day had to be precisely loaded, if not they would would be tossed about and shattered during the spin cycles.
