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....
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...
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...
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.
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....
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Young, Edmund J.A.
One of the first American Jesuits to come to Santa Clara, Edmund J. Young arrived in 1861 and remained the rest of his life. He taught rhetoric and directed the school's literary activity for 30 years. He was a favorite teacher.