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Title: Ahira Holmes
Contributor: San Jose State Normal School (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: San José State University Archives Photograph Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/copyright_info_sc.htm
Description: Photograph of Ahira Holmes, principal of the State Normal School from 1862-65.
Ahira Holmes was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1823. He attended the State Normal School of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and taught in the Plymouth public school before moving to California in 1852. Holmes was principal in both a San Francisco public school and a grammar school in Los Angeles before accepting an appointment as principal of the State Normal School in San Jose. He spent his twilight years managing a fruit farm in San Jose. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/
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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
7 X 8.5 in
Identifier: islandora:81_13
filename: ua_pres_001
oclc: 601765340
islandora: 81_13
Language: English
Subject: Normal School
Presidents, Faculty & Staff
School principals
School superintendents
Teachers
Education, Higher
San Jose State Normal School
Holmes, Ahira, 1823-1889
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

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