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Collection
Identifier: MSS-2009-03-01
Abstract
The California and San José State University Master Plan for Higher Education Records document the 1960 California Master Plan for Education and the 1962 San José State University Campus Master Plan. The Master Plan was the development plan for university real estate (primarily regarding San José State College) in the areas of construction, campus ground improvement, and modernization. The records consist of newspaper clippings, blueprints, correspondence, memoranda, and administrative and...
Dates:
1954-1987
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2010-09-18
Abstract
The California Stereograph Collection consists of seventy-eight cards published by the Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, the Union View Company, and other small publishing houses. Stereograph views were produced in the millions by photographers all over the world. Stereographs provided a very popular entertainment medium predating television and film. The collection represented here documents the natural landscape of California, San Francisco, and Yosemite. The images...
Dates:
1906-1925
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2011-09-16
Dates:
1826-1924; 1861 - 1924
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2016-06-01
Abstract
This collection consists of 24 lithographic prints and one plate created by Professor Sol Kent Carson.
Dates:
approximately 1935-2012
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2018-12-10
Abstract
The Castellano Family Foundation Papers consist of the records of a Santa Clara County-based non-profit organization and range from 1962-2022. The materials in this collection include meeting minutes, press, reports, correspondence, grant and donation paperwork, and commendations.
Dates:
1962-2022; Majority of material found in 2001-2022
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2019-01-08
Abstract
The bulk of this collection consists of recipes written and collected by Adele Charlson during her career as a home economics teacher in San José. It also contains curriculum materials and information on Charlson's family history.
Dates:
circa 1920-1985
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2015-06-05
Abstract
The Chicano Latino Comic Books Collection consists of comic books, zines, and posters that were written, illustrated, and in some instances, published by Chicano and Latino artists. With the exception of Michael Aushenker, prominent author of the series ‘The Nine Lives of El Gato’, the Chicano Latino Comic Books Collection is primarily comprised of comic books by Latino artists. Comic book collaborations between well-known Latino artists such as Rafael Navarro and non-Hispanic authors such...
Dates:
Publication: 1990-2016
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2004-02
Abstract
The Chinese American Women's Club of Santa Clara County Records (1962-1999) documents the activities of a civic club whose mission is to "preserve Chinese culture and traditions and serve [the] community where needed." The collection materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, personal notes, awards and plaques, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, printed matter, event planning materials and donation records.
Dates:
1962-1999
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-07-26
Abstract
The Chowchilla Kidnapping Newspaper Clippings Collection contains newspaper documentation of the kidnapping of twenty-six school children and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California on July 15, 1976. The newspaper articles document the kidnapping, the rescue, and the trial of the accused.
Dates:
1976 - 1981
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2012-03-01
Abstract
The Civil War Centennial Publications Collection (1914-1987, bulk 1961-1964) consists of maps, pamphlets and publications related to the American Civil War Centennial. In 1957, an act of Congress created the United States Civil War Centennial Commission and a national public commemoration of the Civil War. The Commission was asked to work with each of the forty-eight U.S. states to create state-level commissions to commemorate the war, and to coordinate Centennial activities. Commemoration...
Dates:
1914 - 1987
