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An aerial view of San Jose in 1940, looking north. Spartan Stadium is in the foreground, surrounded by open land. At center left, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish is seen on Willow Street. Downtown San Jose is in the center of the photograph: the Hotel DeAnza and the Bank of America building are identifiable. The thirteen-story Medico-Dental Building stands at East Santa Clara Street and North Sixth Street and San Jose State is one block to the south, at Washington Square. In the distance, a hanger at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale is seen (center, background).
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into 8-bit, JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
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