Whenever tours ramp up in spring and new students start arriving in summer and fall, they begin to learn some facts (and some fictions) about the university. As the keepers of campus history, sometimes the archives get questions about old campus legends like this one: I know that many years ago, the university used to […]
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 […]
“They were of all ages and nationalities and opposite creeds, but they were Santa Clara boys, and whether native or Eastern, Mexican or South Americans, English, French, or Italians, Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile, they were Santa Clara Boys.” A.D. Spivalo ’59 [1859], The Redwood, October 1908 As the earliest educational institution in California, […]
Santa Clara University Library Archives & Special Collections is pleased to announce the completion of our newest digital collection, The Nobili Papers. The Nobili Papers digital collection consists of documents from Santa Clara’s first president, Fr. John Nobili, who served from the college’s founding in 1851 to his untimely death from tetanus in 1856. A […]
I wrote the following essay as a final research project for Dr. Andrew Keener‘s CTW 2 class in Winter 2019. I also created an online project about James Alexander Forbes, which you can access if you wish to learn more about James Alexander Forbes and traces of him in Santa Clara University Archives & Special […]
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 […]
