Photograph shows the teacher training school of San Jose State Normal School. "Normal school students were required to undertake five months of supervised classroom instruction before graduation. Space to accomplish this was limited until 1892 when this Moorish Renaissance Revival-style training school building was constructed on the Normal School campus at the corner of Seventh and San Carlos street." 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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