Buildings; Carriages & coaches--American--California--San Jose ; Horses; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Urban life
Black-and-white photograph of the Farmers Union Building in San Jose, 1874. On verso of photo: "The southeast corner of Second and Santa Clara streets looked like this in 1874, just after A. Pfister, noted merchant, mayor and founder of San...
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...
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...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor packages; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Pentium® II processor package. Low Power at 266 and 333 MHz bring performance and efficient power consumption to applied computing applications. Originally designed for the Mobile PC market segment, these...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8088 processor. A pivotal sale to IBM's new personal computer division made the 8088 the brains of IBM's new hit product--the IBM PC. The 8088's success propelled Intel into the ranks of the Fortune 500, and...
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...
Baer, Charlie; Children; Girls; Parade floats; People; Photographs; Prune and Apricot Growers Association; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Urban life;
Black-and-white photograph of a parade float of Prune and Apricot Growers shortly after group's formation. The driver is Charlie Baer. The Prune and Apricot Growers Association was formed in 1917.
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Spraying equipment; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of four men spraying trees in an orchard. On verso of photo: "Keeping an orchard healthy called for a lot of work. It meant spraying, dusting, pruning, irrigating, or some other form of attention almost the year...
Akron (Air-ship); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Moffett Field (Calif.); Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Sunnyvale (Calif.); Technology; Transportation;
Black-and-white photograph of the Airship Akron moored at Moffett Field before departing for its home base at Lakehurst, New Jersey. To the left construction has just begun on Moffett Field's Hangar No. 1. On verso of photo: "May 14,...
Three mounted bicycle riders posing on a street, 1929. On left, Old Man Connett. Winners of G.C.U. 80 mile race over Kings Mountain (l to r) Stanley Conklin, 4th place; R. Berti, 1st place; Dan Anter, 3rd place.
Agricultural Park (San Jose, Calif.); Cattle; Exhibitions
An exhibit of cattle on the race track at the county fair grounds. Also known as Agricultural Park, the fairgrounds were located at the corner of Martin and Race Streets, just off of The Alameda.
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!
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...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Students; Swimming pools;
"Porter T. Kerckhoff, president of Associated Students, takes first dive into new pool. Rev. Z. J. Maher, S.J., president of the University, has just blessed the new tank." - SCU Scrapbook, 1922-26
