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Hand drawn map of San Jose, dated 23 April, 1781, showing allotment of lands to early settlers. Accompanying text is in Spanish.
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Sheet music in Latin used by Native American Choir during Mass at Mission Santa Clara in 1800's.
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Two essays on natural history and agriculture, the first by Mary Chadd of Gilroy School, age 15 years, entitled "A President Takes Office" (pp. 409-10). The second essay is by Ida Stewart of Moreland School, age 12 years, entitled "Santa Clara County" (pp. 829-30). From the book "Compositions: Essays on natural history and agriculture, 1886."
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Black-and-white photograph of the "Spanish Society." On verso of photo: "[At] lower right: Paul Galtes (Later S.J.)."
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Gregory Mengarini served as treasurer and teacher of modern languages at Santa Clara College for nearly 30 years.
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Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Title from title screen dated Oct. 31, 1996.
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The Work Project Administration (WPA) California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in 12 languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. Title from home page as viewed on January 23, 2001.
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Correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, clippings, and other papers primarily concerning Arendt's intellectual, social, and professional life as a lecturer and writer after World War II. Subjects include the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Jewish response to the Holocaust, totalitarianism in Germany, and Zionism. Manuscripts of her works include Between Past and Future; Six Exercises in Political Thought (1961), Eichmann in Jerusalem; A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), and The Life of the Mind (1978).
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Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm books, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings, and other papers. The bulk of the correspondence and writings falls within the period 1775-1826 and encompasses the major events of the founding and growth of the United States in that era.
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