Tag: from the collection
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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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History San José partners with Google Cultural Institute on Soccer Exhibit in time for World Cup “For Club and Country: San José’s Soccer Heroes”
San Jose, CA –June 15, 2014 — A source of pride to soccer fans are the local club heroes chosen to represent their respective countries in international competition, including regional qualifying tournaments, the Olympics, friendly matches, and the World Cup. History San José and Google Cultural Institute are partnering again with an online exhibit For…
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History San José partners with Google Cultural Institute in online exhibits
San Jose, CA — February 19, 2014 — Today History San José and Google Cultural Institute launched a group of online exhibits as part of a new partnership to introduce History San José’s collection to a global audience. The online exhibit will include a total of 166 artifacts, derived from three “physical” exhibits curated by…
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A prescription for medicinal liquor
Google “Prohibition,” “medicinal” and “California” today and you’ll get information about California efforts to legalize medicinal marijuana. But in 1928, when this prescription was filled, prohibition meant alcohol, and its “medicinal uses” were widely interpreted. The National Prohibition Act (the 18th amendment to the Constitution, or Volstead Act) banning the manufacture, sale or transportation of…
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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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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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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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