Ellie Rabenberg
This information was previously prepared in 2016 by Archives & Special Collections student research assistant Jonathan Homrighausen with the research of Nadia Nasr. Every book tells a story: a story about who bought it, when they bought it, why they bought it, and how they used it. In books held by the Santa Clara University […]
When I was looking to apply to Santa Clara University, my mom would always refer to it as “The University of Santa Clara” or “USC.” No matter how many times I insisted it was “SCU” or “Santa Clara University,” she always refuted that it used to be called USC. I didn’t realize until looking at […]
During the summer of 1893, 126 years ago, there was a 400th anniversary celebration of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World in 1492. This celebration took place in Chicago, and is known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, or the 1893 World’s Fair. The fair pulled people from all over the world to see massive […]
Here in Archives & Special Collections, we often receive inquiries on buildings and people related to SCU over the years. A patron recently had an inquiry regarding a staff lounge that used to be on campus. The patron provided us with the clues that it was near the St. Ignatius statue on campus, possibly in […]
Earlier this year, Archives & Special Collections acquired a folder of documents from the Vice Provost of Student Life on the topic of the Women’s Center at Santa Clara University. The University of Santa Clara’s Women’s Center was founded in 1981 as an organization with the goal to inform members of SCU’s campus of the […]
