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Title: 1890 San Jose Mercury newspaper office
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1885
1886
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1890
circa 1890
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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: Photograph of an office shared by the San Jose Mercury and the Santa Clara Valley Land Agency. The space used by the San Jose Mercury is on the right and the space used by the Santa Clara Valley Land Agency is on the left. Both spaces are fronted by long counters with men sitting/standing behind them. More men are standing at the rear of the photograph. This office was located at 171 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose. Office space was shared by these two companies for only a few years.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scaled to 3000 pixels width. Grayscale strip cropped from image. Scanning outsourced to Northern Micrographics as part of the Local History Digital Resources Project, 2005-2006. Technical metadata is limited
Extent: 12 x 20 cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/711
Language: English
Subject: Men
Newspaper industry
Offices
Real estate business
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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