Category: From the Archives

• Hugh Stuart Center

  Entering History San Jose’s Research Library, you’ll find yourself in the Hugh Stuart Center Memorial Trust reading room. Prominent attorney Hugh Stuart Center (1905-1977) had deep roots in Santa Clara Valley, and now has an enduring link to History San Jose. His papers, made available to researchers at HSJ, offer a window into pioneer Santa…

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  July 8, 2019

  From the Archives

• San Jose’s first piano

  (Part of our “From the Piano Bench” series, reprints from the San Jose Historical Museum newsletter archives) By Anne-Louise Heigho An article in the San Jose Mercury of December 22, 1941, traces the history of the first piano in San Jose: it was a rosewood square grand, made by an Albany builder named Burns in…

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  May 1, 2013

  From the Archives, What’s New at HSJ

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• Gems from San Jose’s historic music journals

  (Part of our “From the Piano Bench” series of reprints from the San Jose Historical Museum newsletter archives) By Anne-Louise Heigho San Jose was a vibrant participant in the turn-of-the-century music scene. Local music publishers, and branches of larger West Coast firms, were located on San Jose’s South First and Second Streets. They issued their…

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  April 17, 2013

  From the Archives, What’s New at HSJ

  from the collection, from the piano bench