Automobiles; Associated Oil Company; Service stations
An Associated Oil Company service station at the corner of San Francisco Road (now US 101) and Saratoga-Mountain View Road (now California Highway 9 or Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road). Two men and a dog stand with an automobile.
Agriculture; Painting; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Trees
Painting of "Road with Blossoming Trees, 1922," by Theodore Wores, oil on canvas. This painting is housed at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, http://www.tritonmuseum.org/
Gardens; Houses--California--Saratoga; Painting; People; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Saratoga (Calif.); Women;
Painting of "My Summer House, Saratoga, California, 1928," by Theodore Wores, oil on canvas. This painting is housed at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, http://www.tritonmuseum.org/
Alma Street; Painting; People; Portraits; Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito; Rancho Santa Rita; Robles, Don Teodoro;
A portrait of Don Theodoro Robles. In 1824 Secundino and his younger brother Teodoro Robles were the first non-Indians to discover cinnabar deposits. By 1845, when these deposits proved to be rich in quicksilver, Secundino and Teodoro received...
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,...
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...
Reitzel, Marques R.; Artists; Farm buildings; Landscape paintings; Trees
Reitzel was a prolific artist who produced illustrations and etchings, but was primarily a painter. His son Marques R. Reitzel described how his father would create "exhibition" paintings, typically 5' x 7'. "He first sketched his...
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...
Najar, Maria Ampara; Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito; Robles, Don Teodoro; Wedding rings; Women
Don Teodoro divorced his wife in 1855 over a mystery woman named Lola, and lost half of his share of Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito in the divorce. There is a marriage license for Maria Ampara Najar and Teodoro in the History San Jose Research...
Animals; Cows; Landscape paintings; Paintings; Rivers; Streams; Hill, Andrew Putnam
These bucolic scenes of grazing cattle are not only beautiful, but create a visual historic record of the Santa Clara Valley landscape in the nineteenth century.
Brown, Frank E.; Campus; College buildings; Education; Mission Santa Clara; Painting; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; University of Santa Clara
