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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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El Camino Real bell
In 1769, El Camino Real, or the King’s Highway, was a footpath begun by the Franciscans to link the California Missions north from San Diego to Sonoma. Each mission was situated in areas where large Native American populations lived, where the soil was fertile enough to sustain a settlement. As time progressed and more missions…
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Tuskegee Airman Samuel L. Washington
In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because of societal ignorance and prejudice. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the U.S. military. Civil rights organizations and the Black…
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Electrolysis, electric cars and electrons, oh my: the Perham History Files
Submitted by Catherine Mills, Project Archivist, History San Jose The Perham History Files are one of the five manuscript collections in the Perham Collection of Early Electronics that History San Jose promised to catalog and make available for researchers as part of our year-long Council of Library and Information Resources grant. The Perham History Files…
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Captain Briggs
While closing the Pasetta House, my coworker looked at a small wooden statue and commented, “Goodnight Captain.” At the time, I did not think anything remarkable about the small-gnome like figure. This week, I discovered a folder entitled “Cap’t Briggs” with various notes about the statue from its previous owner, Leonard McKay. A transcription of…
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Arrival of Wells Fargo Stagecoach to History Park
With the sound of hooves reverberating off the store fronts and a cloud of dust rising from the street, a cry of “The stage is here! The stage is here!” could be heard from the onlookers as the daily stagecoach arrived into town. A Wells Fargo stagecoach did arrive today into History Park; unfortunately not…
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Asian American Heritage Month at History Park
San José, CA – May 16, 2012 May is Asian American Heritage Month and History San José will host a spectrum of activities at History Park on Sunday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1:30 PM – Lotus Preschoolers, from San Jose’s Japan Town, will perform Japanese singing 2 PM – San Jose…
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Miss Mexico, Gabriela Palacio, visits Silicon Valley to engage in humanitarian projects
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – April 26, 2012 – Gabriela Palacio, Executive Director of Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes and Miss Mexico 2010 for the Miss World and Miss International Beauty Pageants, will visit the San Francisco Bay Area from May 2-5, 2012. In close cooperation with the Consulate General of Mexico in San Jose, Miss Gabriela Palacio…
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