Agnews Clock Tower; Agnews State Hospital (San Jose, Calif.); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Automobiles; Buildings; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation;
Black-and-white photograph of the Agnews Clock Tower, which was once used as a treatment building. It is one of four hospital buildings on the site that survived after the campus was purchased by Sun Microsystems.
Agriculture; Apricot; Canned fruit industry; Dried fruit; Fruit; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Stone fruit;
Black-and-white photograph of apricots being weighed. "Canners usually differentiate prices depending on the number of apricots required to make a pound. Fruit as small as 16 to the pound is ordinarily canned. Even 18s have been put up. 14s...
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Fruit; Fruit crate labels; Prunes; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History
In June 1960, Duffy-Mott purchased all of the processing equipment of the Pratt-Low Preserving Corporation from Thriftimart Inc. Pratt-Low was founded in 1905 in Santa Clara Valley as a packer of California fruits and vegetables.
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...
Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Carnadero School; Education; Ephemera; Public schools; Receipts; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Textbooks;
Receipt for books purchased for Carnadero School, February 25, 1890.
Children; Fire hose; Fire prevention; Fire protection services; Hope Hose Company; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Santa Clara Tannery (Calif.); Tanner Hose Company;
In 1878 Tanner Hose Company was formed by the employees of the Santa Clara Tannery. Jacob Eberhard, owner of the Tannery purchased a hose cart and 500 feet of hose for it. Although originally meant to provide protection for the Tannery by 1888,...
De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961; De Forest, Maria; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Lee De Forest listening to records with his wife Maria knitting socks in their Hollywood home. The large painting behind them is by Martin Kavel. The painting was awarded the Medaille d'Or at the 1922 Paris Salon, and was purchased at that time by...
Mosquini, Mari, 1899-1983; De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961; Paintings; Record Players
Lee de Forest listening to records with his wife Marie knitting socks, in their Hollywood home. The large painting behind them is by Martin Kavel. This painting was awarded the Medaille d'Or at the 1922 Paris Salon, and was purchased at that time...
Overland journeys to the Pacific; Travel with horses; People; Carts and wagons; Woolf family; Fuller family; Photographs
Woolfs visit the Fullers on 13,000 mile tramp across the United States, through Sunnyvale on their way northward March 31, 1913. They stopped at Fuller home to get a drink--and spent time visiting relative to their trip. The above photo was taken...
Messea arrived in California in 1854, founded Santa Clara College's Science Departmtent, and purchased an impressive treasury of scientific instruments and minerals.
