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Santa Clara City Library

Santa Clara City Library

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.

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142 items found in 2 collections

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4th of July Donkey Baseball, ca. 1960
Alice Hare letter to Santa Clara Public Library, 1906
Bandstand in City Plaza Park at Lexington & Main Streets, 1908
Banquet Scene, Saddlerock Restaurant, Santa Clara, ca. 1910
Barbecue for Santa Clara County Native Sons & Daughters of the Golden …
Bayonet believed to have been used by a soldier in the Battle …
Bicycle racing, ca. 1905
Blossomtime Tours: Santa Clara Valley Blossom Routes PC, ca. 1953
Bond Election 1959, Group with graph of municipal bond election results
Bond Residence, Franklin Street, Santa Clara, California, 1898
Bowling Alley, Franklin Street, Santa Clara, California, ca. 1900
Boys learning about snakes at Santa Clara Public Library, 1958
Canning fruits and vegetables (Excerpted from a 1936 CaliforniaState textbook titled, "California: …
Casket of Frederick Franck in the parlor of the Franck Mansion at …
Cherry Carnival Parade, Franklin Street, Santa Clara, ca. 1914
City Hall, Santa Clara, Calif., ca. 1945
Commemorative Exercises, Second Site Mission Santa Clara, 1907
[Complete Recording of Admission Day Program]
Compositions: Essays on natural history and agriculture, 1886
Cook's Pond, near Pacific Manufacturing Co. Lumberyard, ca. 1904
Count Nikolai Rezanov, ca. 1806
Crucifix owned by Jose Dario Arguello, acting Governor of Spanish California, ca. …
Delightful! Santa Clara County, California, ca. 1939
Earthquake Damage at Agnews Asylum, 1906
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