Photograph shows the second Normal School, built after the first one burned down on February 10, 1880. "In 1881, the second Normal School was completed. The building was designed by local architect Levi Goodrich. To avoid a fire, it was built with brick and stone and incorporated a 5,000 gallon water tank on the third floor. It survived the 1906 earthquake, but there was serious structural damage and the building was demolished in 1908." Historical notes were taken from "Images of America, San Jose's Historic Downtown." Written by Lauren Miranda Gilbert and Bob Johnson. 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.
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