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,...
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....
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...
Big Basin Redwoods State Park; Redwood Park; Parks; Trees; People; Fuller family; Photographs; People;
"Mother of the Forest" at Big Basin, 1913. Hugh Jeidell, a New York author, is seen at the hollow trunk of same. It is 312 ft. tall and 21 ft. in diameter. In 1909, a boy 12 yers of age (son of Prof. C.D. Marx of Stanford University)...
Big Basin Redwoods State Park; Redwood Park; Parks; Trees; People; Fuller family; Photographs
"Father of the Forest" at Big Basin, 1913. Charles R. Fuller is seen standing near the base of this tree, he said he felt like a microbe on the end of a toothpick. The tree is 100 ft. in circumference, 22 ft. in diameter, and said to be...
Political pamphlet; (on cover) This is not just a pamphlet. This is the beginning of a Crusade A Two-Year Plan to makeover a State… (E)nd (P)overty (I)n (C)alifornia!
Butchers; Meat cutting; Men; Relocation camps; Forced migration; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; Turlock Assembly Center (Calif.)
Photograph shows a meat cutting room at Turlock, California Assembly Center. One of the evacuees is using a hacksaw while the other one is using a butcher knife to cut the beef.
Daguerreotypes; Mission Santa Clara; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916;
This image is one of the earliest images of Mission Santa Clara and Santa Clara College. The adobe wall extends from the Baptistry to the arch of old gate to Major Domo Ignacio Alviso's headquarters. The building at right, known as California...
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.
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...
Church vestments; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Dalmatic (sleeved chasuble) in yellow silk damask edged in gold metallic braid. Inset front and back with square of silk brocade, white background, multicolored (predominantly red) flowers. Panels edged in gold metallic braid. Lined with waxed flax...
Church vestments; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Chasuble, green background; salmon -rose, silver galons- gold 'ribbon' trim fiddleback. Franciscan family style; lime-color lining. Early Mission Santa Clara 1800-1825. The original shape of this vestment was perfectly round, with a hole in the...
Black and white photograph of a large horizontal cylindrical metal storage container. "Smith Mfg. Co." is labeled on the container. Picture is set indoors.
"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....
The Kinnersley's Thermometer was an apparatus designed to demonstrate the heating power of an electric spark by showing the expansion of air when an electric spark is passed through it. Physical Description: Glass tube with brass base and top,...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Induction coils
The Ruhmkorff induction coil consists of two separate coils of wire one inside the other wound around a cylinder with a central core of soft iron rods. When a current is passed through the first primary coil, current is induced in the secondary...
This device is for measuring differences in temperature and was named for British natural philosopher John Leslie. It is considerably more sensitive than a standard thermometer. Physical Description: Wooden pedestal base, ivory-colored face,...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Steam engines
The Eolypile (or aeolipile) is a metal sphere attached to a chariot half-filled with water and nested up to allow steam to build up. The steam is then allowed to escape in a jet making the chariot move. Physical Description: Brass 'cart' with three...
