Ephemera; Hotels; Hotel Vendome; Menus; New Year's Eve; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
On front of menu: Artist's color rendition of a very young child (naked except for shoes and socks) standing on a circular rug. Written below drawing: "I've laid aside most everything to wish you a Happy New Year." A pale blue sash is an...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor packages; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology;
Enlarged black-and-white photograph of the Intel ® 8086 microprocessor package. Clock speed: 5 MHz (.33 MIPS) 8MHz (.66 MIPS) 10 MHz (.75 MIPS). Transistor Count: 29,000. Chip Performance: .75 MIPS (millions of instructions per second).Circuit...
College buildings; Education; Lake Lagunita; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Stanford (Calif.); Stanford University;
Black-and-white photograph of Lake Lagunita, Stanford University, circa 1900. Although formerly used by students for boating and swimming, it is a dry lakebed most of the year.
Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Large astronomical telescopes; Lick Observatory; Mount Hamilton Range (Calif.); Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of the Lick Observatory 36-inch refracting telescope. When built it was the most powerful telescope in the world. Weight: 13 tons. Length: 60 feet.
Cooper, Astley David Middleton; Art; Paintings; Men;
Astley David Middleton "A. D. M." Cooper, pictured to the right, in his studio with some of his paintings and regalia. Cooper was certainly the most flamboyant and publicized of local artists and some of his work hangs in the famed...
Fredericksburg Brewery; The Alameda (San Jose and Santa Clara, Calif.); Buildings
The Fredericksburg Brewey was one of the most popular businesses on The Alameda. In 1869 Gottfried Frederick Kranenberg opened his first brewery in a small brick building on the corner of The Alameda and Cinnabar Street. Theodore Lenzen designed...
The artist made this painting based on Moses Schallenberger's description of his cabin at Truckee Lake Camp (today known as Donner Lake). He described it as a windowless cabin twelve by fourteen feet, covered with rawhide and brush as a roof, with...
Choirs (Music); Photographs; Santa Clara College (Calif.);
Group portrait of choir with Father DeRop taken outdoors. All subjects nuimbered and most identified: back row L to R 1) F. Sargent, 2) A. Guatelli, 3) R. Bliss, 4) J. Murphy; Second row from top L to R 5) A. deMello, 6) A. Connor, 7)[un-named],...
