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Celebrating the Sempervirens story — more than 100 years of conservation

May 13, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly

May 13, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

San Jose’s first piano

May 1, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

(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…

Gems from San Jose’s historic music journals

April 17, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

(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…

CLIR grant work successfully completed at History San Jose

February 27, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

Planning a time capsule? Some things to keep in mind

January 16, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

Caboose arrives at History Park

January 14, 2013October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

Jane Morgan Papers

December 27, 2012October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

1924 Olympian Clarida Hunsberger, captured on film by Harold Elliott

November 27, 2012October 9, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

Shirlie Alice Montgomery (1918 – 2012)

November 21, 2012October 7, 2015 by historysanjose

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…

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