The History San Jose Research Library will be closed from Monday, April 21 through Friday, May 2, 2008. The Library will re-open for appointments on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
Many materials are not included in this listing. Please contact us
online or call (408)521-5026 if you would
like to know more.
For more information, please see History San Josés artifact and building collection.
Photographs
Silicon Valley History Online provides a selection of History San Jose photograhs.
More than 2,500 easily accessible, catalogued photographs, from
daguerreotypes of early settlers to Andrew P. Hill's magnificent redwood
photographs taken in Big Basin State Park 100 years ago.
An additional 12,000 photographs are partially catalogued.
City of San José Records
Includes original manuscripts from the Pueblo de San José de
Guadalupe beginning in 1789, and various City ledgers dating from 1849.
View a 1781 Diseño (map) from the Pueblo Papers (53k JPEG) »
Santa Clara County Records
View Manumission (Freedom from Slavery) Paper (21k JPEG) »
Dating from 1849 to the 1930s. Many are indexed, including marriage
licenses, wills, probates, coroners inquests, deeds, as well as other
miscellaneous legal documents from the county recorders office. County
and District Court records starting in 1849 are also housed at the
Research Library.
The Jimmy Schnieder and Robert Bullmore
Collection of New Almaden Mine Materials
Documenting the quicksilver mines at New Almaden from 1853 to 1973. The
New Almaden Mines produced the majority of quicksilver used to purify
gold during Californias Gold Rush.
Sempervirens Club Records
Records from 1883 to 1966 [bulk dates 1900-1945] of a conservation
club that created the first California State Park, Big Basin, in the
Santa Cruz Mountains. Also included is selected correspondence of artist
Andrew Putnam Hill.
Sempervirens Club of California Records Finding Aid available at the Online Archive of California.
Bicycle Collection
Lefebvre Bicycle and Slideshow »
History San José has a rich collection of materials on bicycling
in San José. You will find photographs, registers of bicycle races,
information on San José native and renowned bicyclist Otto Ziegler
during the 1890s as well as his bicycle club the San José Road Club,
Garden City Wheelman Club materials, local and California racing programs
and scrapbooks.
Pamphlets and Ephemera
View postcard slideshow »
Voluminous pamphlet and ephemera files containing local womens
suffrage flyers, fruit labels, post cards and much more.
City Directories
San José city directories starting in 1870, as well as many
early published county histories.
(see the Biographical Research Resources for more information)
Maps
The largest collection of San José Sanborn Fire Insurance maps,
over 1,000 local maps from 1847 to the present, and atlases.
Aerial Photographs
Numerous aerial photographs of the Santa Clara Valley from as early
as 1931.
Cemetery Records
Numerous records from Oak Hill Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Santa
Clara County.
(see the Biographical Research Resources for more information)
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