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Photograph shows the front exterior of the mausoleum at Oak Hill Funeral Home at night. Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park is located at 300 Curtner Avenue in San Jose. Founded in 1839, it is the oldest secular cemetery in California. "Burials at Oak Hill include Charles Doerr, a baker who served on the San Jose City Council in the 1890s, Abram Agnew, and members of the Donner party, including Curtner, Schallenberger, Reed, Eddy and Murphy...." From: "About Us - History - Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park" http://www.oakhillfuneral.com/dm20/en_US/locations/24/2473/history.page (accessed 5/26/11). 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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