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Title: 1900, San Jose, Alum Rock Park meteor
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
circa 1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Two men stand near the Alum Rock Park meteor. Big tourist attraction at Alum Rock Park. Touted as a meteor but may have been a natural occurrence. Broken up in 1918 to help with the war effort. Smelting yielded 39 tons of high grade magnanese ore used in the manufacture of armor plating.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Master images scanned at 300 dpi and scaled to 6000 pixels on the longest side. Bit depth: grayscale at 8-bit; color at 24-bit. Images compressed to 800 pixels across the long dimension and to JPEG format. Scanning outsourced to Luna Imaging Inc. as part of an LSTA Grant funded by the California State Library in 2003-2004. Scanning hardware is unknown.
Extent: 21 x 25 cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/734
Language: English
Subject: Men
Parks
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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