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...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara
This image is one of the earliest images of Mission Santa Clara, after 1855. 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 Hotel, was a...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings; Mission Santa Clara
Image of old adobe wall and overhang corridor with benches. Text on verso, "Built in 1822-1823 as north wall of looms and dressmaking buidling of Indian girls whose 'marjerio' adjoined its east end on inside of quadrangle. The padres'...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.);
Entrance to garden months after the fire burned down Father's Residence. The Adobe walls of Padres Viader and Catala residence have been cleared away. The crooked line of the entrance walk from Alviso Street west into and through the old residence...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; olive trees; Santa Clara (Calif.);
Text on verso," Mission Santa Clara olive tree planted 1805, near old adobe wall of boys dormitory, Mission quadrangle, Santa Clara. Three cut down 1928- "
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Crosses; Dedications;
Image of base of cross erected at first site, with the following engraving: Santa Clara Mission Site No. 1, established Jauary 12, 1977. Probable location A: S 47'00 W about 1350 FT. Probable location B: S 10'15 W 3724 FT. Old Spanish Bridge N...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Jails; Santa Clara (Calif.); Adobe buildings
This was the oldest jail in California built on the old Gardner property after the second Mission Santa Clara site was erected near the present Santa Clara depot in 1818. The structure was razed on January 12, 1922. This image was taken as workmen...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Crosses; Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.)
Arthur D. Spearman, S.J., standing next to Mission Santa Clara marker cross erected by James A. Colligan, S.J. in 1921. This cross, located at Old Spanish Bridge on the banks of the Guadelupe River, is inscribed with location of Site A and Site B...