Kelci Baughman McDowell
Have you ever spent time in the Mission Church and wondered about the origin of some of the religious art and decorations in there? One particular object has inspired many a prayer and a bit of curiosity: the Christ Crucified statue. Also known as the Catalá Crucifix, this statue came to Santa Clara from Mexico […]
This month the SCU Alumni Association is celebrating a milestone anniversary and Archives & Special Collections is getting in on the fun by offering a little quiz to test your knowledge. Use the images from the first ledger of the Alumni Association held in the SCU Archives to answer these fun questions. It’s almost as […]
This past quarter, I worked with Professor Aoki’s ARTS 74 students on their digital imaging projects by using historic photos from the SCU Digital Collections. Students could either pick a black and white photo to colorize (with extra points if they had done research to back up their color selections), or recreate an historic photo […]
After a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner of tomato cocktail, turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, peas, and cranberry sauce, topped off with a huge piece of apple pie and a piping hot cup of tea, we all took a much needed walk to the Industrial Building where we enjoyed the following Thanksgiving […]
It’s too soon to tell if the Santa Clara tree still lives, but we have no reason to not hold onto hope that it survived. Fire Erupts due to Lightning Storm Many of us were shocked to hear late last week that the CZU Lightning Complex fires had tore through Big Basin Redwood State Park […]
One Story of a Mission Santa Clara Indian Arguably the most famous Mission Indian of Mission Santa Clara, Lope Inigo of Rancho Posolmi is an Ohlone person whose life spanned the Spanish, Mexican, and American colonial period in the Santa Clara Valley, having lived from 1781-1864. Inigo held the relatively high post (available to an […]
Before Covid-19 hit Santa Clara, Archives & Special Collections had been busy acquiring new items to add to our collections, and we’d like to take this opportunity to share some of them with you. The items featured in this blog post support the discipline of women’s studies and we look forward to using them in […]
This is the third in a three-part series about the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on SCU. Follow the tag SCU_WWII to read all three posts. It may seem like SCU has never faced a crisis as extreme as the current Covid-19 crisis and racial justice unrest we are now facing. […]
Header Image: SC Cadets are captured on film heading to class in July of 1943 by Father Hubbard (Image courtesy of SCU Digital Collections). Classes being held during the summer was one of the main changes to the curriculum during World War II. This is the second in a three-part series about the effects of […]
This is the first in a three-part series about the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on SCU. Follow the tag SCU_WWII to read all three posts. Universities across the world have shifted to virtual instruction this past Spring, ushering in a huge shift in the way curriculum is designed and the […]
