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Title
First Street, San Jose
Creator
Smith News Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued
1955-1965
Contributing Institution
History San Jose Research Library
Collection
History San Jose Online Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Caption on reverse: San Jose, California, founded as Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe by St. Jose Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777 just some seventeen months after the Declaration was adopted in 1776 in Philadelphia. By vote of California's first Constitutional Convention on September the 26th 1849, San Jose became California's first State Capital. One year prior to the State's Admission to the Union. The Metropolitan area population is approximately one-half million people, it is situated one hundred feet above sea level, has nineteen parks, one hundred and one churches, and is located merely fifty miles south of San Francisco, California. Color photo by Igor Stchogoleff. Postmarked April 1965, San Jose, to Mr. Lawrence Starkey, 4311 Wyoming, Kansas City, Missouri. "Friday 15/1965. Hi Lawrence, Had a nice trip and am enjoying the Easter vacation with Betty and family. The flowers here are beautiful and so is the weather. Hope all is well wth you. Will be home in a couple weeks. Amy [?]"
Type
Image
Identifier
20F991D5-744D-4FFE-8280-602994820450
2007-1-211
Subject
First Street (San Jose, Calif.)
Postcards
Nineteen sixties (LCSH)
Downtown neighborhood (San Jose, Calif.)
Businesses--California--San Jose

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