Agriculture; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of a smiling girl cutting apricots. A woman is in background, at left. On verso: "A 10,058." Bottom left on verso: "G1-004."
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...
Art education; Arts & crafts; Painting; Relocation camps; Women; Forced migration; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.); World War II, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
Photograph shows a woman artist at work on a landscape scene at Tanforan, California Assembly Center.
Automobiles; Castle's Hair Store; De Luxe Restaurant; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; South 1st Street (San Jose, Calif.); Transportation; Urban life; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of a woman pulling a car by her teeth in a demonstration for a local dealer. On back of photo: "Nancy C. Brown, 281 S. 9th St., San Jose, California."
Banking industry; Clerks; Relocation camps; Forced migration; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
Photograph shows a Japanese man being interviewed by a representative of the Federal Reserve Bank at a San Francisco Control station, assisted by a Japanese American woman as interpreter and clerk.
Banners; College students; Football; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Student life; University of Santa Clara; Women;
Photograph of Joseph R. Aureochochea, '19, Director of SCU Rodeo, and an unidentified woman cheering for Santa Clara.
Basketball; Basketball players; Relocation camps; Sports; Women; Forced migration; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; Stockton Assemby Center (Calif.)
Woman evacuee playing a solitary game of basketball at the Stockton Assembly Center in California.
Bernal, Pedro A.; People; Portraits; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white portrait of Pedro A. Bernal and his family (an elderly woman, possibly his mother, a middle-age woman and a younger woman). On back of portrait, "Pedro A. Bernal, 654 Rt. 1, San Jose Cal." Bernal was "born October 19,...
Biography; Books; Knox-Goodrich, Sarah L.; People; Portraits; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women; Women's suffrage--California--San Jose;
Sarah L. Knox-Goodrich is the only woman who has a portrait and biographical sketch in this 1881 History of Santa Clara County. These types of county histories were published all over the United States in the 1880s. The history part of the book was...
Bonds; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
In 1959, Santa Clara launched a bond drive for $22,500,000 to expand and modernize City services for the community's burgeoning population. $800,000 of that was to finance a Central Library for the City. The bond issue passed overwhelmingly. Left...
