The County Office of Planning Photograph, Slide and Film Collection consists of 1,264 photographs, approximately 3,600 slides and two films. The contents of the collection visually document Santa Clara County from 1906 to 1980, with the bulk of the collection ranging from 1950 to 1970. The collection contains aerial views of the County, commercial development, housing, historical landmarks, industries, parks, public facilities, transportation, agriculture, and people. The collection concentrates on the development of the county, such as new housing developments, commercial developments, and park and recreation development. The purpose of this collection may have been to collect visuals for brochures and presentations. Currently only the photographs have been cataloged. For additional information about the collection, please see the description in the Online Archives of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org). You may search the collection holdings for pictures of specific subjects, locations, or date by using the index below. Generally, it is preferable to use the singular rather than the plural for a subject in a search (for example, "airport" rather than "airports"). The photographs are available for viewing at the County Archives. The following search terms are prominent in the collection and can serve as a beginning point for exploring the collection. Aerial, Agriculture, Air Pollution, Airplanes, Apartments, Areas of the County, Churches, Civic Center, Commercial, County Parks, Display Models, Earthquakes and Floods, Erosion and Benching, Farming Activities, Garbage Dumps, Gas Stations, Hillside Development, Historical Landmarks, Industrial, Industry, Local Streets and Highways, Offices, Orchards, Parks and Recreation, People, Public Facilities, Recreational Activities, Residential, Santa Clara County Fair, Schools and Colleges, Shopping Centers, Single Stores, Skyline, Special Problems, Subdivisions, Traffic, Trails and Pathways, Transportation, Utilities.
This dataset has the following 8 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
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Order Number | order_number | text | 119-10 0; 102-42 110-01 110-02 view top 100 |
Subject | subject | text | Skyline Earthquakes and Floods-Floods and Ground Level Photos Parks and Recreation-Scenic and Recreation Resources (Including Reservoirs, Creeks, Etc.) Commercial-Strip Commercial and Billboards Residential-Ground Views of Subdivisions view top 100 |
Description | description | text | Long Distance Electrical Distribution Lines and Stanchions Mountain Road Street Scene Residential Subdivision Street Scene Architectural Model of Section of County Civic Center view top 100 |
Location | location | text | N/A San Jose Santa Clara County Palo Alto Santa Clara view top 100 |
Date | date | text | N/A circa mid 1950s September 30, 1958 circa early 1960s circa 1940s view top 100 |
Size | size | text | 8 x 10 in. 3 1/2 x 5 in. 4 x 5 in. 10 1/2 x 14 in. 10 3/4 x 14 in. view top 100 |
Box Folder | box_folder | text | 2/12 1/20 1/45 1/16 2/9 view top 100 |
Remarks | remarks | text | N/A View #2 View #1 View #3 View #4 view top 100 |