Tag: from the collection
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The first Japanese typewriter: A 100 year-old mechanical marvel with 2450 characters!
by Ralph Simpson This Japanese Nippon typewriter was recently re-discovered in History San José’s North Warehouse. It is a heavy and unique typewriter, of historical significance because it is the original version of the first Japanese-language typewriter. While complete and operational, the typewriter was in very poor cosmetic condition. This is the story of how…
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Remember Summers Gone By at Our Latest Pop-Up Exhibit at History Park
Summer is just around the corner and our curators have created a new pop-up exhibit with objects and ephemera from HSJ’s collection. As leisure time increased during the post-World War II boom, so did the number of South Bay residents seeking to beat the summer heat on the beaches of Santa Cruz. Check it out…
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Spring Cleaning and Warehouse Auction at History Park
We are clearing out the warehouse at History Park to make way for the Bay Area Glass Institute’s new studio. We want to thank the Stella B. Gross Charitable Trust and the Hugh Stuart Center for their generous funding to make this project possible! As our curators inventoried and moved artifacts to HSJ’s state-of-the-art Collection…
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History San Jose partners with The Tabard Theatre Company for Swift Justice
History San José is The Tabard Theatre Company’s non-profit partner for the world premiere of Swift Justice. HSJ will receive a portion of the proceeds from the bar throughout the run of the show-so please buy a ticket and drink up! Premiering January 15, 2016 for only 10 performances, get your tickets now and support…
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History San José awarded NEH preservation grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced on December 14th $21.8 million in grants for 295 humanities projects, including new grants to digitize historical materials held by individuals, give a second life to important out-of-print humanities books, and support public programs on pressing contemporary challenges. History San José’s Research Library & Archives was one…
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Collections Corner: Earl’s letter to Santa
The letter to Santa is a time-honored tradition, in which children are expected to prove that their good behavior over the past year justifies their list of desired presents. The tradition extends to many countries; some children mail their letters through the post office to a special North Pole mailbox; others put the letters in…
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A.D.M. Cooper at the Cantor
History San José has loaned several paintings from our collection to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University for the exhibit Astley D. M. Cooper and Mrs. Stanford’s Jewels, on display through November 16th. Curator Annie Ronan, recently awarded her PhD from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History,…
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Collections Corner: The Old Townsend House
Recently we received a donation from the Kanemoto family of Lucy Walker Townsend’s papers and artwork, documenting the old Townsend home at 1585 Schallenberger Road in San Jose. Some may remember the mansion, no longer standing, built by J. H. M. Townsend for his bride Katherine Chisholm, and where his children Ethel, Eva Maude, and…
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John Green, Big Basin’s original “Supervisor”
Recently we received an email from someone looking to identify a photograph of Big Basin Park taken by Andrew Putnam Hill that was owned by her family. Hill took many photographs of the Big Basin area in the Santa Cruz Mountains between 1900 and 1902 as part of his efforts to save the forest from…
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Bell & Howell projectors donated by the Academic Film Archive of North America
The mission of the Academic Film Archive of North America is to acquire, preserve, document, and promote academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition. Most of the 20th century academic films were recorded on 16 mm film. As film format became obsolete, and the subject matter…
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