Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! To celebrate, we have curated a new exhibit, Colonial Mexico & Early Print, that draws from our collection of rare books featuring the cultures, geography, flora and fauna of Mexico. Many of these books were collected by the Franciscans in Santa Clara’s mission era, although some were acquired after the founding […]
As a keeper of historical records, it’s not often that I take advantage of the opportunity to not only watch but be an active part of our campus history in the midst of its creation. Usually, I’m focused on contextualizing current events with information from our past. Recently, however, my family and I decided to […]
Across the United States, in the weeks following the death of George Floyd, social protests brought renewed scrutiny of statues and monuments in public places in nearly every state, particularly the memorials to Confederate generals, such as Robert E. Lee, or individuals involved in colonizing America, such as Christopher Columbus or Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M. […]
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 […]
On May 13, 2020 Santa Clara’s Mission Church will celebrate the 92nd anniversary of its dedication, which happened on May 13, 1928. 1928—I hope you caught that—is not during the famous mission era of California history. What’s going on with this timeline? Here at Santa Clara we all know and love the Mission Church, but […]
As I sorted through a pile of paperwork that dated back to the 1700s, I couldn’t help but wonder where the single piece of information that I was so diligently searching for could be located. The search was so challenging that I started to think I would only find this information when I was searching […]
