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Title: San Jose State Normal School
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910
Publication Information: Acmegraph Company
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Postcard 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://sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: View across the expanse of lawn in the State Normal School quadrangle. In the center is the tower and to the right of the tower is the auditorium. To the right and left is part of the colonnaded arcade that surrounded the quadrangle. The structure was built of reinforced concrete to replace the building destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. It opened in September 1910. The tower and auditorium have survived, but the arcade was demolished in the 1960s.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image and 16-bit RGB color. Compressed to JPEG format using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjplpc/id/174
Language: English
Subject: Universities & colleges
Lawns
Towers
Quadrangles (Courtyards)
Arcades (Architectural components)
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Historic Postcard Collection

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