Engraving of the Knox Building, also called the Knox Block. The Knox Building stood at the northwest corner of First Street and Santa Clara Street. It was constructed in 1866, and demolished in 1945. Businesses housed in the Knox Building included: a real estate office, a musical instruments shop, the Feist Brothers' dry goods store and two cigar shops. A doctor, a contractor, lawyers and architect Levi Goodrich had offices on the second floor. Note the San Jose Library on the second floor at far right. Horse drawn trolleys pass through a busy intersection. This engraving is from Thompson & West's 1876 Historical Atlas of Santa Clara County.
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image/jpeg2000 Master images scanned at 300 dpi and scaled to 6000 pixels on the longest side. Bit depth: grayscale at 8-bit; color at 24-bit. Images compressed to 800 pixels across the long dimension and to JPEG format. Scanning outsourced to Luna Imaging Inc. as part of an LSTA Grant funded by the California State Library in 2003-2004. Scanning hardware is unknown.
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