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SAN JOSE & SANTA CLARA

Selected Bibliography

Adkins, Jan Batiste. African-Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County (Arcadia Press, ​ ​ 2019).

Arbuckle, Clyde. History of San Jose (San Jose, CA: South and McKay, 1986). ​ ​

Barrett, Dick, ed. A Century of Service: San Jose’s 100-Year-Old Business Firms, Organizations ​ and Institutions (San Jose, CA: San Jose Bicentennial Commission, 1977). ​

Beilharz, Edwin A. and Donald O. DeMers Jr. San Jose: ’s First City (Tulsa, OK: ​ ​ Continental Heritage Press, 1980).

Chapman, Robin. California : The Lost Orchards of Valley (Charleston, SC: ​ ​ History Press, 2013).

Chapman, Robin. Historic Bay Area Visionaries (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2018).

Clark, Shannon E. The Alameda: The Beautiful Way (San Jose, CA: Alameda Business ​ ​ Association, 2006).

Couchman, Robert. The Sunsweet Story (San Jose, CA: Sunsweet Growers, Inc., 1967). ​ ​

David, Heather M. Mid-Century By the Bay: A Celebration of the Bay Area in the ​ 1950s and 1960s [architecture]. (Santa Clara: CalMod Books, 2010). ​

Downtown San Jose Historic District Design Guidelines: Approved by the , November 4, 2003. ​

Douglas, Jack. Historical Footnotes of (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical ​ ​ Museum Association, 1993).

Douglas, Jack. Historical Highlights of Santa Clara Valley (San Jose, CA: History San Jose, ​ ​ 2005).

Espinda, George. Cottages, Flats, Buildings and Bungalows: 102 Designs from Wolfe and ​ McKenzie [San Jose], 1907. (San Jose, CA: Bay and Valley Pub., 2004). ​

Farrell, Harry. Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town (: St. ​ ​ Martins Press, 1992).

Fox, Frances L. San Jose’s Luis Maria Peralta and His Adobe (San Jose, CA: Smith-McKay, ​ ​ 1975).

Giarratana, Elizabeth. Old Willow Glen: A Photographic Sketchbook (Palo Alto, CA: ​ ​ Consolidated Pub., 1978).

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Growing Orbit: The Story of FMC Corporation (: FMC, 1992). ​

Hall, Frederic. The History of San Jose and Surroundings, with Biographical Sketches of Early ​ Settlers (San Francisco: Bancroft and Pub., 1871). ​

Jacobson, Yvonne. Passing Farms, Enduring Values: California’s Santa Clara Valley (Los Altos, ​ CA: De Anza , 1984).

Johnson, Kenneth M. The Quicksilver Mine (Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, ​ ​ 1963).

Kenney, Martin, ed. Understanding : The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial ​ (Stanford: Stanford Press, 2000).

Loomis, Patricia. A Walk Through the Past: San Jose’s (San Jose, CA: ​ ​ Argonauts Historical Society of San Jose, 1998).

Loomis, Patricia. Signposts (San Jose: San Jose Historical Museum Association) Volumes 1 ​ ​ (1982) and 2 (1985).

Lukes, Timothy J. and Gary Y Okihiro. Japanese Legacy: Farming and Community Life in ​ California’s Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 1985). ​

Matthews, Glenna. Silicon Valley, Women, and the : Gender, Class, and ​ Opportunity in the Twentieth Century (Stanford, CA: Press, 2003). ​

McKay, Leonard and Nestor Wahlberg. A Postcard History of San Jose (San Jose: Smith and ​ ​ McKay, 1992).

Mellon, Dolores. Catalyst for Change: A History of Civic Plazas in San Jose (San Jose, CA: ​ ​ Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose, 2006).

Miller, Kathleen. San Jose: A City with a Past (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum ​ ​ Association, 1988).

Morgan, Jane. Electronics in the West: The First Fifty Years (Palo Alto: National Press Books, ​ ​ 1967).

National Canners Association. Canners Directory, 1950 (, DC: NCA, 1950). ​ ​

O’Mara, Margaret. Cities of Knowledge: Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley ( Press, 2004).

Oxford, June. The Capital that Wouldn’t Stay Put (Fairfield, CA: James Stevenson, 1995). ​ ​

History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Pearce, Ralph M., and Curt Fukuda. San Jose Japantown: A Journey (San Jose: Japanese ​ ​ American Museum, 2014).

Peyton, Wes. San Jose: A Personal View (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum ​ ​ Association, 1989).

Pitti, Steve. The Devil in Silicon Valley: , Race, and ​ (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003). From his 199 Stanford dissertation

Preservation Action Council of San Jose. San Jose Modernism: Historic Context Statement (San ​ ​ Jose: PAC-San Jose, 2009).

Ruffin, Herbert G. II. Uninvited Neighbors: in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Norman: Press, 2014).

Saint James Park Master Plan Update (San Jose, CA: San Jose Redevelopment Agency, 2002). ​

San Jose Japantown Historic Context and Reconnaissance Study (San Jose, CA: Carey & ​ Company Architects, 2004).

Sanders, Ian L., and Graeme Bartram. Cyril Frank Elwell: Pioneer of American and European ​ Wireless Communications, Talking Pictures and Founder of C. F. Elwell, Limited .. (Morgan ​ Hill, CA: Castle Ridge Press, 2013).

Sawyer, Eugene T. History of Santa Clara County, California, with Biographical Sketches (Los ​ ​ Angeles: Historical Record Co., 1922).

Solari, Agnes and Margaret Zaro. San Jose’s St. Joseph’s: The Church That Watched a Pueblo ​ Grow Into a City (San Jose, 1975). ​

Stanley, Tim. The Last of the Prune Pickers: A Pre-Silicon Valley Story. (Irvine: 2 Timothy ​ ​ Publishing, 2009).

Sunshine, Fruit, and Flowers: Santa Clara County and its Resources: Historical, Descriptive, Statistical (San Jose, CA: San Jose , 1896; rep. San Jose Historical Museum Association, ​ 1986).

Thompson and West. Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County, 1876 (rep. San Jose, Smith ​ ​ and McKay, 1973).

Tsu, Cecelia. Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) From her 2006 Stanford dissertation: “Grown in the ‘Garden of the World’: Race, Gender, and Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley, 1880-1940”).

Van Laan, Krista. Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture (San Jose: Archives & ​ ​ Architecture LLC, 2014). [San Jose architectural firm]

History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Van Laan, Krista. Wolfe & Higgins:Master Architects of the Spanish Revival (San Jose: Archives ​ ​ & Architecture LLC, 2017). [San Jose architectural firm]

Villarreal, Arturo. Jose Manuel Gonzales: Apache Alcade/, California ​ (Chusma House, 2018).

Willow Glen: Ten Walking Loops (San Jose, CA: Willow Glen Neighborhood Association / ​ Preservation Action Council of San Jose, 2007).

Winslow, Ward. The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance (Palo Alto, ​ ​ CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, 1995).

Winther, Oscar Osburn. The Story of San Jose, 1777-1869: California's First Pueblo (San ​ ​ Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1935).

Yu, Connie Young. Chinatown San Jose, USA (San Jose, CA: History San Jose, 2001). ​ ​

Zaniello, Tom. California’s Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression-Era Case that Divided ​ Santa Clara County (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2016). ​

Zavella, Patricia. Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara ​ Valley (Ithaca, NY: Press, 1987). ​

CALIFORNIA and the WEST

Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Sinkewicz, ed. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of ​ Early California, 1535-1846 (University of Santa Clara, and Heydey Books, 2001). ​

Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Sinkewicz, ed. Testimonios: Early California Through the ​ Eyes of Women, 1815-1848. (Berkeley: Heydey Books, 2006). ​

Cronon, William, George Miles and Jay Gitlin, ed. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s ​ Western Past (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992). ​

Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: A Farmworkers, 1870-1941 (Ithaca, NY: ​ ​ Cornell University Press, 1981). . Gutierrez, Ramon A. and Richard J. Orsi, eds. “Introduction,” in Contested Eden: California ​ Before the Rush (Berkeley, CA: Press, 1998). ​

Houston, James D. Californians: Searching for the Golden State (Santa Cruz, CA: Otter B. ​ ​ Books, 1992).

Jones, Oakah L., Jr. Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New ​ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).

Limerick, Patricia, Clyde A. Milner and Charles Rankin, ed. (preface) Trails: Toward a New ​ Western History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991) ​

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Lotchin, Roger. Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare. (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Monroy, Douglas. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier ​ California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990) ​

Nash, Gerald. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Lincoln, ​ ​ NE: University of Nebraska, 1990).

Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the : A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking ​ Californians, 1848-1890 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). ​

Robinson, W.W. Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining ​ Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ​ 1948)

Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (New York: Oxford University ​ ​ Press, 1973), and later volumes in the series: Inventing the Dream: California Through the ​ Progressive Era (1985), Material Dreams: Through the 1920s (1990), ​ ​ ​ Endangered Dreams: The in California (1996); The Dream Endures: ​ ​ California Enters the 1940s (1997); Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-50 ​ ​ (2002); Golden Dreams: California In An Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (2009); and Coast of ​ ​ ​ Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 (2004) ​

Stegner, Wallace. The American West as Living Space (Ann Arbor, MI: ​ ​ Press, 1997)

Vaught, David. Cultivating California: Growers, Speciality Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 ​ ​ (Baltimore, MY: Press, 1999)

West, Elliott. “A Longer, Grimmer, But More Interesting Story,” in Trails: Toward a New ​ Western History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991): 103-111. Originally ​ published in Montana The Magazine of Western History 40 (Summer 1990). ​ ​

White, Richard. It’s Your Misfortune But None of My Own: A New History of the American West ​ ​ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).

Worster, Donald, “Beyond the Agrarian Myth,” in Trails: Toward a New Western History ​ (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991): 3-25.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, and MEMOIRS

Allen, Thomas L. Growing Up in the Santa Clara Valley: From Picking Prunes to Submarine ​ Service (2013 self-published). ​

Arbuckle, Helen. San Jose’s Women: Colonial Days to the 1970s (San Jose: Arbuckle, 2002) ​ ​

History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Graves, Constance Daniels. Goerge W. Bellomy: Pioneer of and California (Sanford, FL: ​ ​ Bellomy House, 2011).

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