Category: What’s New at HSJ
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How we restored our Apple 1 to working condition…
…and then got Steve Wozniak to power it up for the first time! by Ralph Simpson, History San Jose volunteer The Apple 1 was first sold in May, 1976 and was the first personal computer as we recognize it today. Before the Apple 1, personal computers used toggle switches for input and lights or printers…
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Celebrating the Sempervirens story — more than 100 years of conservation
San Jose, CA – May 6, 2013 On May 18, 1900 the Sempervirens Club was founded by photographer and painter Andrew Putnam Hill of San Jose to save the old-growth redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains. The Sempervirens were pioneers in the conservation movement, and the home of Andrew and Florence Hill is now located…
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Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly
San José, CA – May 7, 2013 — Does a bear walk through the woods? We don’t know, but the California Grizzly will be touring through History San José beginning in May. Opening to the public on Sunday, May 25 at the Leonard & David McKay Gallery at the Pasetta House in History Park, the…
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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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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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CLIR grant work successfully completed at History San Jose
Staff and volunteers at the History San Jose Research Library and Archives have recently completed processing five manuscript collections from the Perham Collection of Early Electronics under a 2012 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources’ Cataloging Hidden Collections and Archives program. Series through item-level catalog records, as well as many digital images,…
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Planning a time capsule? Some things to keep in mind
Every once in a while History San Jose’s Research Library & Archives receives the contents of a time capsule that someone has unearthed while demolishing or renovating a building. Most recently our good friend Jim Salata of Garden City Construction passed along some materials he found in the cornerstone of a church building that was…
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Caboose arrives at History Park
On January 14, a railroad caboose was placed on display coupled to the Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive alongside Senter Road at History Park creating an attraction to passing motorists. For over a century, cabooses were a familiar sight at the end of trains. Essentially a traveling office, these vehicles provided space to complete shipping…
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Jane Morgan Papers
Hello! My name is Beth Atlas. I was one of the student assistants working on processing the manuscript collections of the Perham Collection of Early Electronics in 2012 under a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. During my time at History San Jose, I processed the Jane Morgan Papers. Jane Morgan was…
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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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