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Research Library: Collection Highlights
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 José’s 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 recorder’s office. County and District Court records starting in 1849 are also housed at the Research Library. The Jimmy Schnieder and Robert Bullmore 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 California’s 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 Voluminous pamphlet and ephemera files containing local women’s 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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