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The Santa Clara City Library collects, preserves, and organizes historical materials to provide the community with local history research opportunities and to foster civic pride in the City’s colorful heritage. Housed in Central Park Library’s Heritage Pavilion, this collection covers Santa Clara’s development from the founding of Mission Santa Clara to the present. Materials collected and displayed include: books, maps, photographs, posters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, pamphlets, oral histories, audiovisual materials, copies of manuscripts, and other primary source documents. View a sampling of these materials and those of other local collections through Silicon Valley History Online.
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Harris Lass House Museum
Historical Tour of Santa Clara
Mission City Memorial Park Cemetery Index
Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce Things to do Historic Sites
Santa Clara DemographicsSanta Clara Historic Home Tour
Santa Clara Historical & Landmarks Commission
Santa Clara University Archives
Marian
A. Peterson High School Scrapbook Index
The Santa Clara Central Park Library Heritage Pavilion houses four scrapbooks
that were compiled by Marion A. Peterson from 1964 through 1981 documenting
the history of her namesake high school from its dedication and opening
through its closing. This link takes you to an index (in PDF format) to
the people and topics covered in the scrapbooks.
Santa Clara Woman's Club Scrapbooks
(use links below)
The Santa Clara Central Park Library Heritage Pavilion houses a few scrapbooks
compiled by the Santa Clara Woman's Club. Detailed table of contents indexing
for these scrapbooks is underway. As of November, 2007, indexing has been
completed for the 1966-1967,
1968-1969,
and 1970-1971 scrapbooks. These links take you to the indexes in PDF
format.
The Society is headquartered in the Santa Clara City Library. Its members assist the Library in maintaining an international genealogy collection and work on projects to preserve the history of Santa Clara County. The site includes the Early Settler File of Santa Clara County and a Santa Clara County History Books Index.
California
Room Database
Read about and search for Santa Clara County pioneer names and places
using the California Room Database of the San Jose Public Library. This
database was created by indexing books, scrapbooks, and clipping files
located in the California Room of San Jose’s Martin Luther King,
Jr. Public Library. Check the library
catalog for similar items.
Santa
Clara County Archives
In October 2006, the County of Santa Clara established a public archive
for its historical records.
Santa Clara
County CAGenWeb
Part of the California GenWeb project, provides information and links
to free websites that are helpful to genealogists and local historians
doing Santa Clara County family and local history research.
Santa
Clara County Early History & United States National Register Properties
The National Park Service has assembled information on the early history
of Santa Clara County and a List
of Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Clara
County.
State of California
Historical Landmarks in Santa Clara County
The California Office of Historic Preservation maintains an online list
of properties designated State Historical Landmarks by the State of California.
Heritage Council of
Santa Clara County
The website of this consortium of Santa Clara County historical museums
and associations provides links to their members’ homepages, and
in October lists special events to celebrate Santa Clara County History
Month.
History San Jose
This Museum, Archives, and Research Library has a vast collection of artifacts,
records, and photographs pertaining to San Jose and Santa Clara Valley
History.
Silicon Valley Local
History Resources
Learn about other Santa Clara County archives and local history librarians,
some of whom collaborated to produce
Silicon Valley History Online.
John Casey’s
Silicon Valley History Page
John Casey, a lifelong Santa Clara Valley resident, has posted information
on early Santa Clara County settlers and the origin of some place names
in the Santa Clara Valley.
Located in Santa Clara, Intel Corporation—a leader in technology exploration for the last 35 years—operates a museum showcasing the company’s history and the growth of the semiconductor and microprocessor industry.
Computer History Museum
Timeline of the History of Computing
This interactive timeline covers major developments in the history of
computing, many of which occurred in Silicon Valley from 1945 to 1990.
Stanford
Silicon Valley Archives
Learn which important historical papers pertaining to Silicon Valley history
and companies are held by this Stanford University archive.