Collection Highlights
Decorative Art & Women’s Exchange Minute Book
Accession #: HS Linear Feet: 0.21 Date Range: 1910-1915 Content Notes: Includes minute book (1) The Society of Decorative Art of Santa Cruz, a women’s organization, was founded on June 1, 1885, “for the promotion of art in Santa Cruz, and for the establishment of a depot where artistic products might be displayed and sold.” [...]
Cordano Family Collection
Accession #: HS Linear Feet: 0.21 Date Range: 1910s-1930s Content Notes: Includes (bulk) photographs Albert S. Cordano (1888-1933) and Eugenia F. “Jean” (Gaffney) Cordano (1892-1955) were both born in California. They had two sons, Albert L. Cordano (1918-1998) and William D. Cordano (1921-1999). Albert and Eugenia arrived in Santa Cruz from San Jose in 1911. [...]
Cooney Family Collection
Accession #: HS Linear Feet: 0.21 Date Range: estimated 1890s-1910 Content Notes: Includes photographs John G. Cooney (1843-1918), born in Ireland, and wife, Margaret (McGovern) Cooney (1848-1914), born in New York, moved from Chicago with their family to San Francisco in 1874. About 1880 they moved to Santa Cruz. Their eight children, born in Illinois, [...]
Coon Family Diaries
Accession #: 82:3 Linear Feet: 0.42 Date Range: 1905-1973 Content Notes: Includes diaries (15) Sylvia Hanes (1886-1973), a native of Ohio, married Herbert Daniel (Dan) Coon (1887-1969), a carpenter and building contractor, in Pasadena, California, in 1908. Dan Coon was born in Soquel, California; he spent the first seventeen years of his life in Ben [...]
Civic Music Association Collection
Accession #: HS Linear Feet: 0.21 Date Range: 1940s-1960s Content Notes: Includes photographs, programs The Santa Cruz Civic Music Association was incorporated in 1949, though it began earlier. The civic music association movement started in the United States in 1921. The purpose of the organization was to bring highly trained and world famous performing artists [...]