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...
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.
Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Nature; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Big tourist attraction at Alum Rock Park. Touted as a meteor but may have been a natural occurrence. Broken up in 1918 to help with the war effort. Smelting yielded 39 tons of high grade magnanese ore used in the manufacture of armor plating.
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.); Simple machines; Archimedean screw
A simple mechanical device credited to Archimedes. When the lower end of the screw is placed in water, turning the device raises water to the top. This principle has various applications for drainage and irrigation, but the instrument can also be...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Simple machines; Archimedean screw
A simple mechanical device credited to Archimedes. When the lower end of the screw is placed in water, turning the device raises water to the top. This principle has various applications for drainage and irrigation, but the instrument can also be...
Battle of Santa Clara; Bayonets; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
This bayonet was found on the Neves property on land dug up to build the Central Library for the city in the 1960s. A serial number on the bayonet was used to date it and to surmise that it might have been used in the 1847 Battle of Santa Clara....
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.); Camera lucida;
An artist's aid for drawing, the camera Lucida was a portable device that was used to reproduce visual images on to paper. An adjustable prism mounted on the end of a supporting arm reflects the surrounding light and produces the image onto the...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Camera lucida;
An artist's aid for drawing, the camera Lucida was a portable device that was used to reproduce visual images on to paper. An adjustable prism mounted on the end of a supporting arm reflects the surrounding light and produces the image onto the...
Clean rooms; Computers; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Printers; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of cleanroom printers. Special printing supplies are used to maintain the cleanroom environment required in the wafer fabrication process.
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
On text that accompanies black-and-white photograph: "Disc-plowing with a 40 HP Best. This was one of the first models with a full track. Earlier models used short tracks for power plus a single wheel out front for steering. The driver is...
Electronic industries; People; Photographs; San Bruno (Calif.)--History; Technology;
At bottom of black-and-white photographic print: "Eimac super power klystrons are tested in San Bruno, California plant. An Eimac super power klystron was used in the recent Venus radar contact supplying the high radio frequency power. Eimac...
Electronic industries; People; Photographs; San Carlos (Calif.)--History; Technology;
At bottom of black-and-white photographic print: "Eimac employees Naomi Prindle of San Carlos, left, and Bernice Buttacavole, San Mateo, are shown with two Eimac electron-power tubes widely used in military and commercial applications. Eimac...
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...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.); Galvanometer
A galvanometer is an instrument used to measure the presence, direction, and strength of small electric currents in a conductor. A magnetic needle is deflected by the presence of an electric current in a nearby conductor. The needle turns at right...
Galvanometer; Scientific apparatus and instruments
A galvanometer is an instrument used to measure the presence, direction, and strength of small electric currents in a conductor. A magnetic needle is deflected by the presence of an electric current in a nearby conductor. The needle turns at right...
Relocation camps; Sanitation; Septic tanks; Sewerage; Waste disposal facilities; Forced migration; Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.); Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
Photograph shows an Imhoff tank used for the reception and processing of sewage under construction near the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
