Electronic industries; Intel innovators; Moore, Gordon E., 1929-; People; Portraits; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white portrait of Gordon Moore. Gordon E. Moore is currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1975...
Electronic industries; Intel innovators; Moore, Gordon E., 1929-; People; Portraits; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white portrait of Gordon Moore in 1981. Gordon E. Moore is currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor packages; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology;
Color photograph of the 80286 microprocessor package. Clock speed: 6MHz (.9 MIPS) 10 MHz (1.5 MIPS) 12 MHz (2.66 MIPS). Transistor Count: 134,000. Chip Performance: 1.5 MIPS (millions of instructions per second). Circuit Line Size: 1.5 microns....
Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Calif.); Documents; Forest conservation; Hill, Andrew Putnam, 1853-1922; Redwoods; Reunions; Richards, W. W.; Santa Cruz County (Calif.)--History; Sempervirens Club of California; People;
Document written by W.W. Richards ("a Charter Member") covering the years 1900-1927 (for their 27th reunion). Andrew P. Hill was the "Father of [the] Sempervirens Club," and this document was part of an album containing all of...
Photographs; Agnews State Hospital (San Jose, Calif.)
This photograph, circa 1896, shows what the main building of the Agnews State Asylum for the Insane looked like in the years before it collapsed in the April 1906 Earthquake.
Alum Rock Park (San Jose, Calif.); Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Jails; Nature; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of the Alum Rock Jail. On verso of photo: "Much of the original road into Alum Rock Park was built by County Jail prisoners who were housed--and guarded--in these shacks. The roofed structures and the open one...
Books; Children; Composition (Language arts); Education; Essays; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Two essays on natural history and agriculture, the first by Mary Chadd of Gilroy School, age 15 years, entitled "A President Takes Office" (pp. 409-10). The second essay is by Ida Stewart of Moreland School, age 12 years, entitled...
Palo Alto (Calif.); Photographs; Redwoods; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of El Palo Alto, the Tall Tree located off Alma Street by the Southern Pacific tracks and San Francisquito Creek. It lent its name to the City of Palo Alto. El Palo Alto is a redwood tree thought to be over 1,000 years...
Horses; People; Postcards; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Women;
Picture on front of postcard of two women in cowboy dress accompanied by two horses. On verso of postcard: "Round-up San Jose. Come July 1-2-3-4. One hundred years of fun crowded into four days at California's Great Frontier Celebration, the...
Advertisements; Agriculture; Drawings; Ephemera; Livestock diseases; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Veterinary medicine;
On front of advertisement: "Important to owners and raisers of stock -- Dr. W. J. McKee, of San Jose, Cal., a Veterinary Surgeon of forty years experience, brings glad tidings to all owners and raisers of Horses, Cattle and Stock generally....
Diversity; Imprisonment; Indians of North America; Mission Period; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
May 3, 1809 document from Jose Maria Estudillo in Monterey to the Commissioner of the town of San Jose, discussing the capture of a fugitive Native American named Secundino who has been charged with several thefts, and is a suspect in a rape case....
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 80286 processor. The Intel 286, originally known as the 80286, was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor. This software compatibility remains a hallmark of...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8086 microprocessor. Chalk the 8086 design up to Intel’s competitive paranoia. ”Because of the success of Zilog’s 8-bit processor, we were sure they were cooking up some super processors for 16 bits...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. The processor debuted with 42 million transistors and circuit lines of 0.18 microns, 29 years after Intel's first microprocessor. The Intel® Pentium® 4 processor's initial speed was...
Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Schools; Hughes, Kathryn
Kathryn Hughes Elementary School in the Santa Clara Unified School District was built in 1964 and named after Kathryn Hughes, who was an outstanding teacher in the Alviso School District for 39 years. Kathryn Hughes, herself, performed the ribbon...
Arguello, Concepcion, 1791-1857; Combs; Mantilla; Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich, 1764-1807; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Shawls;
Concepcion Arguello was 15 in 1806 when she met the Russian Count Nicolai Rezanov, Chamberlain to the Czar while he was in San Francisco. After a three week courtship, they became engaged. An official of the royal court, he had to return to...
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...
