Santa Clara University

This is a collection of photographs, College records, newspaper clippings, and personal accounts that tell the story of how the Santa Clara College community fared through, and reacted to, the disastrous event.

Institution: Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University (and its previous incarnations as University of Santa Clara and Santa Clara College) has been photographed by a number of photographers over the years. We have digitized and made online collections from some of them, including Charles Beebe Turrill, who documented the College during the early years of the 20th Century, and William Eymann, who captured campus life during the mid years of that century. We also have thematic online collections, including one showing historical SCU buildings over the years, and another with the photographic history of SCU from its start as a small school to the …

Institution: Santa Clara University

These images of celebration at the end of World War 1 are taken from a scrapbook in the Conrad S. Babcock Papers. The papers are housed in the Archives & Special Collections Department of Santa Clara University.The photographs feature such people as General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing, General Ferdinand Foch, the Kings of England and Spain, Queens Mary and Alexandra, and the Prince of Wales, amid sites in Paris, New York, and Washington, DC.

Institution: Santa Clara University

The Archives & Special Collection Department in the Santa Clara University Library has a rich collection of primary source materials available for researchers interested in the history of California Settlers and Pioneers. This digital collection is made up of ephemera: materials made for a single purpose and not meant to last for a long period of time. These can include everything from newspapers to calling cards to diaries. The items here come primarily from the nineteenth century in the San Francisco Bay Area. They provide a unique perspective to how early Californian settler and immigrant families lived and developed community …

Institution: Santa Clara University

This collection, taken from books and pamphlets in the Santa Clara University Archives & Special Collections Department, features histories of Santa Clara College and University, and the Santa Clara de Asis Mission, from its founding days until the bicentennial mission celebration of 1977. It also includes tour pamphlets for the Mission.

Institution: Santa Clara University

Ernest Paul Watson, SJ was born on April 4, 1889 in Quincy, California. Watson went to Santa Clara College (now Santa Clara University) as an undergraduate and was a student during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. His account of the earthquake was published in the Plumas Independent; a copy of the article is included in the collection. After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1908, Watson entered the novitiate at Los Gatos, CA for the Society of Jesus and went on to teach at a number of different Jesuit institutions, including the University of San Francisco, Brophy College Prep in …

Institution: Santa Clara University

The collection of homilies presented here cover the period of his ministry in Aptos and Capitola. They are Father Markey’s working drafts, and show the development of his ideas and presentations. His style and themes are well represented - often referring to events of the week as a springboard to his message ("The Devil is back in business again! Time Magazine reports this week that crowds of sensatlon-seekers are calling by phone or visiting in person!..."), engaging the congregation by way of a challenging introduction ("How free are you? Or - to pose the broader question: have you ever been …

Institution: Santa Clara University

Father Viader’s Miscellany Book is a collection of 220 manuscripts (676 pages) that was assembled apparently by Father José Viader, one of the most influential Franciscans in Mission Santa Clara (where he served from 1796 to 1833). Father Viader’s Book, which is bound in hide, served as a reference book for life in Mission Santa Clara; as such, the multiple manuscripts in it deal with a great variety of subjects.

Institution: Santa Clara University

The Francisco Jiménez Papers, 1962-2010, document Jiménez’s achievements as a writer and university professor. Jiménez’s written works, primarily collections of short stories, document his childhood and adolescence as the son of migrant farm workers. He recounts his personal and academic journey, from working alongside his parents while living in abject poverty and struggling to learn English at school, to eventually receiving his BA at Santa Clara University, as well as his MA and Ph.D. at Columbia, and returning to SCU as a professor, where he would teach for more than four decades. The collection ranges from paper materials and correspondence …

Institution: Santa Clara University

The Magín Catalá, O.F.M. Collection, circa 1885-2009 (bulk 1885 – 1909), documents the life of Fray Magín Catalá, O.F.M. Often referred to as the “Holy Man of Santa Clara,” Fr. Catalá was stationed at Mission Santa Clara for thirty-six years and was widely renowned for his piety and spiritual labors. In 1882, more than fifty years after Fr. Catalá’s death, Archbishop J.S. Alemany, O.P. initiated the process of his beatification. As of 2014, his Cause remained open. The bulk of the collection consists of reproductions of deposition transcripts taken circa 1885 and again in 1908-1909 during the beatification process of …

Institution: Santa Clara University