Classes (Groups of students); Commencement ceremonies; Education; Ephemera; High schools--California; Programs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Ninth Annual Commencement program for San Jose High School, Tuesday, May 29th, 1883. Includes four pages.
Portrait of 22 members of the1st year high class of 1914 including Henry, Hall, Hayes, Hugh, and Wood, with a priest, students dressed in suits and standing on the steps of O'Connor
Electronic industries; Memory dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the 3101 64-Bit Schottky Bipolar RAM Die. Intel's first successful product, the 3101 Schottky bipolar memory, a 64-bit high speed static random access memory (RAM) was introduced in 1969, just nine months after the...
Reid, Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph), 1823-1904; Letters; People; Bulkley, William;
A letter written in Santa Clara from William Bulkley to Bernard J. Reid. He lets Reid know that Father Nobili and everyone else holds Reid in high regard and hope to receive a letter from him soon. (Reid had just left his teaching position at the...
Adobes houses; Painting; San Jose (Cailf.); Valencia, Manuel
Manuel Valencia's grandfather came to California with the de Anza Party (1774) and became an administrator of the Presidio in San Francisco. The family was given many land grants. Valencia Street in the Mission district is named for the family....
Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Nature; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Big tourist attraction at Alum Rock Park. Touted as a meteor but may have been a natural occurrence. Broken up in 1918 to help with the war effort. Smelting yielded 39 tons of high grade magnanese ore used in the manufacture of armor plating.
Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Nature; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Alum Rock stands at the entrance to Alum Rock Park. It is the hardened core of an extinct volcano with a high percentage of alum which gave the park its name.
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; FMC Corporation; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of the Bean Spray Pump, circa 1915. The Bean Spray Pump Company manufactured high pressure orchard sprayers. The main plant was in San Jose. The company eventually evolved into the FMC Corporation.
Church buildings; Earthquakes; Elementary schools; High Schools--California; Photographs; Posters; San Francisco (Calif.); San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Poster publicizing a lecture by the Reverend W.S. Kelly, pastor of the Centella Methodist Episcopal Church in San Jose, on the April 18, 1906 earthquake. Poster includes photographs of earthquake damage to San Francisco, to Santa Clara's Methodist...
