Smith-Layton Archives Local History Albums

Les Amis de Sourisseau Photo Albums and Videos
These albums cover topics of local interest and local places over the past 100 years or so of San Jose's landscape, families, built environment, government and business. Distributed monthly and written by members of the Sourisseau Board of Directors as well as local historians from 2014 to 2018, they showcase photographs from the Smith-Layton Archives at the Sourisseau Academy.

Sourisseau Academy Occasional Papers

• Businessmen and Municipal Reform: A Study of Ideals and Practice in San Jose and Santa Cruz, 1896-1916 (19 MB)
  by David W. Eakins, 1976


• California's Ethnic Minorities (37 MB)
  Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History, Occaisional Paper No. 3, 1978


• Historical Directory of Santa Clara County Newspapers (19 MB)
  by Jean French Wheeler, 1973


• An Index to 920 O'Farrell Street (4 MB)
  by Harriet Lane Levy, 1990


• An Index to Hall's, 1871 History of San José (19 MB)
  by Everett and Anna Marie Hager, 1974


• Some Early African-American Settlers in the Santa Clara Valley (7 MB)
  by Edith Smith and Glory Anne Laffey, 1994


• Witness to Empire: The Life of Antonio Maria Sunol (47 MB)
  by James P. Delgado, 1977