Historical Directory Santa Clara County Newspapers
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f..f Historical Directory of Santa Clara County Newspapers 1850-1972 JEAN FRENCH WHEELER SOUR ISSEAU ACADEMY FOR CALIFORNIA STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Occasional Paper No.1, 1973 tOSEAU AC ,~ ~. llic~ ~ ~.. ~ ~t o~ N ~ STATE U~"\ Officers Robert E. Levinson Bill ie B. Jensen Director Secretary Board of Trustees Clyde Arbuckle Feliciano Rivera Peter M. Buzanski Peter Rodriguez I:' Ted C. Hinckley Lynn Vermillion Jerome B. Munday Austen Warburton Gerald E. Wheeler Emeritus Trustees Laurence Bulmore Benjamin F. Gilbert Charles B. Burdick Benjamin H. Hazard Theron Fox Lawrence B. Lee Carolyn de Vries Executive Secretary Historical Directory of Santa Clara County Newspapers 1850-1972 JEAN FRENCH WH EELER SOURISSEAU ACADEMY FOR CALIFORNIA STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Occasional Paper No.1, 1973 COPYRIGHT, SOURISSEAU ACADEMY, 1973 PREFACE The Sourisseau Academy is pleased to present its first Occasional Paper. We hope that it proves to be a forecast of future endeavours: it is scholarly, and it fulfills a need that has long been felt. We trust that subsequent publications meet these criteria as completely as does this union list. Publications Committee Jerome B. Munday, Chairman Christine B. Simpson Robert Harmon The appearance of Occasional Paper No. 1 fulfills one of the purposes for which the Sourisseau Academy was chartered: "To prepare and disseminate historical scholarship to the university and community, and to present results of research and service activities through publications and other media." This activity of the Sourisseau Academy is one of many that takes place during the academic year. A generous bequest from the late Miss Eva Sourisseau provided the initial funding for the Academy. We are grateful, in addition, to the members of the Sourisseau family for their suggestions. It is fitting that our first publication should be a useful tool for further historical research on the history of Santa Clara County. Through the efforts of Jean Wheeler, we now have, at long last, a valuable source of information for the study of this region. We are also grateful to James Noah, Director of University Relations, Larry Daniello, University Editor, and the University Duplicating Center for their assistance and technical advice. We invite comments on this publication from our readers. Editorial Board Ted C. Hinckley, Chairman Lawrence B. Lee Robert E. Levinson ii TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. v SECTION I . 1 A directory of selected libraries, historical societies, museums, and newspaper publish ing companies of Santa Clara County SECTION II . 5 Ad irectory of selected I ibraries outside Santa Clara County. SECTION III. .. ..... .. .. 5 A glossary of abbreviations and symbols with explanation of usage SECTION IV ................ ....... 6 Listing of Santa Clara County newspapers. III INTRODUCTION It is the purpose of this Directory to present the fiel d of genetics, and among the sources the informat io n about the location and extent of newspaper newspaper is much used. Also in the field of stat istical holdings in Santa Clara County 's li braries, museums, inquiry there have been some pi oneering efforts made in historical societies and newspaper publis hing compan ies . t he use of newspaper content . Hopefully, the County A small number of libraries located outside the County newspapers of present day will aid these efforts in the also have been incl uded. These were chosen because they future. have collections which include a substantial number of Whatever has been the reason for collecting in the the County's newspapers. past, there must be coordi nated effort in the future wi th Few inventories of this type have been published in a re presentative collection of newspapers covering all California. The Ca li fornia State Library is prepa ring areas of the County as its goal. preli minary plans for a Union Lis t of Californ ia The publishers , many of whom operate margina ll y newspapers to appear in the next year or so. The most profita ble enterprises, sh ould be encouraged toward recent nation-wide li sting appea red in the 1930's and fu rther cooperation by allowing the older papers they while there is now a concrete plan to update it, estimates presentl y have t o be preserved through m icrofilmi ng, are t hat t he project will take at least ten years. and to become more aware of the historical va lue in There are no definiti ons sufficiently clear to gu ide in their current product. The libraria ns, restricted in their the selection of titles in the narrow area between efforts by budgets, must work through a County-wide newspapers and periodicals. A very arbitrary decision program to avoid duplication, at least in the newspapers was made to include many publications, perhaps not in retained. The current cooperation among the library the strictest sense news papers, if it were felt the contents networks could be a further basi s for a coordinated of the publicati ons contai ned enough reporting of news poli cy. There should be more pooling of resources for to be of use to the researcher. Titles were not eliminated microfilming as few institut ions have complete runs of which were of chief interest to narrow interest groups the older newspapers and even fewer have the funds for only. It was visualized that the listing would be of use to individualized projects. Pe rhaps the bulk of collect ing people who were seeking information about the the past, whi ch seems to be more d ust than print at this viewpoints of special groups as well as for those more time, must fa ll on the historical societies and museums. interested in broader topics. Some attic or old brassbound trunk mi ght yet yield up I t has been said that a list of t his type serves a treasu re r beyond bel ief. two-fold purpose - as a finding aid in helping to locate a The sources used for t his compilation were city, specific newspaper and issue fo r the use of a researcher, county and institut io nal histories, city and county and as an inventory function; and in the second, the directories, loca l and national newspaper directories, summing up of the holdings of a group of libraries, there union li sts of periodicals, letters, printed talks, are the impl ications that may be derived from the pamphlets, periodicals, theses, memoirs, old newspapers, inventory. From this listing can be recogn ized the both in pri nt and on microfilm, and other materials too leading impli cation - the lack of a systematic policy of nu merous to enumerate. Each insti tution, almost collecting newspapers, past and present. wi thout exception, was visi ted several t imes and if a Many of the ol der newspapers of Santa Clara County personal inventory of the co ll ect ion cou ld be made, it have not been kept and few, if any, copies now remain was so done. The holdings were checked t hrough July of many others. These older papers have a known value 1973, and correct ions made in this listi ng. to the researcher but the need for continued collecti ng is The cooperati on of the personnel of each li brary, at times less apparent. It recently has been stated that historical society, museum, and newspaper company wa s the present day and future seacher wi ll fi nd little of given graci ously and the supportive attitude of the staff historical valu e in current County newspapers. This of the Sourisseau Academy for California State and raises questions then of there being little further reason Local History was most helpful. To the co-workers, to coll ect and preserve_ fri ends, and relatives whose unflagging enthusiasm and Perhaps the contents of the newspapers will be of less encouragement he lped to ove rcome the problems and value if the researcher tries to use them as they hav e tediu m of compil ing a list of this type, an expression of been used in the past; but there are a variety of new gratitude is hereby given. methods in research and these require a broader ra nge of It is the hope of the Sourisseau Academy fo r evidence. There is a new mood of inquiry, a concern fo r California State and Local History, and the compil er, the broad structural characteristics of society, the that the HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF SANTA long-term changes in these characteristics, and a desire to CLARA COUNTY N EWSPA PE RS, 1860-1972, will be study society as an in teracting whole. For example, a found to be useful. great deal of work is bei ng done by medical workers in Jean French Wheeler Department of Librarianship San Jose State Un iversity v Section I A DI RECTORY OF SELECTED LIBRARIES, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, MUSEUMS AND NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING COMPANIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CAM PBE LL The Suburban Newspaper Publications Inc . is the parent company of eleven County weekly news papers: THE CAMPBELL PRESS Cupertino Courier; Sunnyvale Scribe; Los A ltos Town Suburban Newspaper Publications Inc. Crier; Milpitas Post; East San Jose Sun; South San 10950 N. Blaney Avenue Jose-Edenvale Sun; Almaden-Cambrian Sun; San Jose Cupertino 95014 Sun; Santa Clara Sun; West San Jose Sun; and The The Campbell Press is a weekly, establ ish ed June 7, Campbell Press_ These papers are currently being micro 1895 . It has no library; t itle and frequency have varied. fi lmed and limted in -office use of papers is allowed. Restrictions on usage: Older unbound papers are in fragile condition, staff usage only.