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Title: Ambrose H Randall
Contributor: San Jose State Normal School (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: San José State University Archives Photograph Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/copyright_info_sc.htm
Description: Photograph of Ambrose Randall, principal of the San Jose State Normal School from 1896-1899.
Ambrose Randall was born and educated in Maine, where he attended Maine Wesleyan College. He taught in Stockton and Santa Cruz before he became a member of the San José State Normal School faculty in 1884. In addition to teaching physics and geometry, Randall saw the successful development of the new four-year teacher preparation course; improvements to the zoology, botany, physiology and chemistry laboratories; and the construction of nine tennis courts, three handball courts and an open-air gymnasium for basketball and other sports. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
7 X 8.5 in.
Identifier: islandora:81_1
filename: ua_pres_003
oclc: 601765042
islandora: 81_1
Language: English
Subject: Normal School
Presidents, Faculty & Staff
School principals
School superintendents
Teachers
Education, Higher
San Jose State Normal School
Randall, Ambrose
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

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