Overland journeys to the Pacific; Travel with horses; People; Carts and wagons; Woolf family; Fuller family; Photographs
Woolfs visit the Fullers on 13,000 mile tramp across the United States, through Sunnyvale on their way northward March 31, 1913. They stopped at Fuller home to get a drink--and spent time visiting relative to their trip. The above photo was taken...
The Goniometer is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by observing the direction of a beam of light reflected from their face. The instrument was invented by W.H. Wollaston in 1807. Physical Description: Round brass base with black...
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.
Mission Period; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology; Water filter urns;
Vessel made of porous stone. There are four four-inch-square projections flush with the top of the urn. These projections are approx. 1.5 inches thick and are part of the urn. Top is round, bottom is oval.
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...
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,...
Thermodynamics--Experiments; Scientific apparatus and instruments
The brass ball will just pass through a brass ring when cold, but when the ball is heated in boiling water it expands so that it no longer passes through the ring. The ball and ring demonstration of heat expansion has been in use since the early...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.); Thermodynamics--Experiments;
The brass ball will just pass through a brass ring when cold, but when the ball is heated in boiling water it expands so that it no longer passes through the ring. The ball and ring demonstration of heat expansion has been in use since the early...
Photographs; San Jose State University; Automobiles; Student activism
Individual black and white frame from a contact sheet. Shows the car buried as a part of SJSC Survival Faire on February 20, 1970, being pulled out of its grave at some future date. The location is between the old cafeteria building and 7th Street...
