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Title: California History Center Silicon Valley History Online
Dates: 1875-1960
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1880-1950)
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Collector:
De Anza College. California History Center
Collection Size:
180+ items
79 online items
Repository:
De Anza College. California History Center
Cupertino, California 95014
Abstract: The California History Center collection includes images of historical interest of Santa Clara County with emphasis on the
western Santa Clara Valley, especially the municipalities of Cupertino, Saratoga and Los
Gatos, and San José. Nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century agricultural, and transportation history, education and
urban life are portrayed in visual images from the general photo collection, the Charles Fuller family scrapbook collection,
the Charlie Baer photo collection, a postcard file and ephemeral items. Cupertino farming families such as the Merithew and
Dunbar families, Charlie Baer's automobiles and business activities, local churches, and Cupertino and north county schools
are featured along with landscape images from parks and creeks of Santa Clara Valley. Charles Fuller's March 1914 bicycle
trip from Sunnyvale to Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observatory is recorded through captioned photographs.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
The California History Center can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any
claims of the copyright holder. Permission to copy or publish any portion of the California
History Center's collection must be given by the California History Center.
Please use the following credit line: "[Title and date of image], [Source ID], courtesy [name of contributing repository],
obtained from www.siliconvalleyhistory.org."
This collection was created by California History Center staff during 2003-2004 as part of the Silicon Valley History Online
Project.
Project Information: Silicon Valley History Online
Silicon Valley History Online is a collaboration of seven institutions providing the first gateway to the major historical
resources of this important California region. Images dating from 1800 to 2000 illustrating life in California's Santa Clara
Valley were selected from the collections of the California History Center at De Anza College, History San José, Intel Corporation
Museum, San Jose Public Library California Room, San José State University Special Collections, Santa Clara City Library Heritage
Pavilion, and the Santa Clara University Archives. Items include photographs, ephemera, artifacts, maps and manuscripts. Selected
items were digitized as part of a one-year collaborative project funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
administered by the California State Library. For more information please see the Silicon Valley History Online website at
http://www.siliconvalleyhistory.org/about.html .
Scope and Content of Collection
The California History Center collection includes images of historical interest of Santa Clara County with emphasis on the
western Santa Clara Valley, especially the municipalities of Cupertino, Saratoga and Los
Gatos, and San José. Nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century agricultural, and transportation history, education and
urban life are portrayed in visual images from the general photo collection, the Charles Fuller family scrapbook collection,
the Charlie Baer photo collection, a postcard file and ephemeral items. Cupertino farming families such as the Merithew and
Dunbar families, Charlie Baer's automobiles and business activities, local churches, and Cupertino and north county schools
are featured along with landscape images from parks and creeks of Santa Clara Valley. Charles Fuller's March 1914 bicycle
trip from Sunnyvale to Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observatory is recorded through captioned photographs.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Baer, Charlie
Blabon, Ethyle
Blake family
Bubb family
Fuller family
Porter family
Winchester, Sarah Pardee, 1837-1922
Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History
Cupertino (Calif.)
Los Gatos (Calif.)
San José (Calif.)
Saratoga (Calif.)
Hamilton Range, Mount (Calif.)
Lick Observatory
African Americans
Agriculture
Automobiles
Chinese Americans
Children
Education
Electric railroads
Transportation
Urban life
Silicon Valley History Online
Aerial
Ephemera
Maps
Panoramic photographs
Photographic postcards
Photographic prints