Month: November 2012
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1924 Olympian Clarida Hunsberger, captured on film by Harold Elliott
As part of our year-long grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to catalog five manuscript collections from the Perham Collection of Early Electronics, we’ve been processing the Harold F. Elliott Papers. Elliott was a 1916 Stanford University engineering graduate who did a significant amount of work with Federal Telegraph Company in Palo…
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Shirlie Alice Montgomery (1918 – 2012)
Earlier this month, our community lost a truly remarkable lady in Shirlie Montgomery who, as a professional photographer, captured in her lens many memorable moments in the Santa Clara Valley as it transformed from an agricultural community to Silicon Valley. A native and life long resident of San Jose, Montgomery was the grandniece of T.…
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Twenty-thousand court cases, with more yet to come
by Jim Reed, Curator of Library & Archives After seven and a half years, with seven different people having worked between four and twenty-five hours each week, archives volunteer Joan Helms recently indexed our 20,000th court case! Back in April 2005, former archives volunteer Patsy Castro Ludwig urged me to “do something” about the extensive…
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Remembering our veterans
On Wednesday, November 7, a small gathering was held just outside the History Park fence line to unveil San Jose’s contribution the World War II Walls of Honor initiative. Started as a grass roots organization by HSJ affiliate Spirit of ’45, the initiative strives to capture images and stories of World War II veterans across…
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