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• Silicon Valley

  Images of America

  Shueh, Sam

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  The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today.

• Sunnyvale

  the Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family

  Goodell, Jeff

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  In 1979, Jeff Goodell's mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Over the next decade, Silicon Valley boomed, nd the Goodell family unraveled. This memoir is the story of a fragile, all-too-ordinary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cultures@Silicon Valley

  English-Lueck, J. A. (June Anne), 1953-

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  Anthropologist English-Lueck examines the everyday lives of people living in and connected to Silicon Valley—software engineers around the water cooler, a mothers' group at lunch, nannies in the park, rush-hour commuters—to get at the emerging…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunnyvale

  From the City of Destiny to the Heart of the Silicon Valley

  Ignoffo, Mary Jo, 1955-

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  This unflinching and nuanced history traces Sunnyvale's evolution from its origins as home to the Ohlone people before Spanish colonization in the 18th century, through the city's establishment, its agricultural and military history, up to its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Santa Clara County

  Harvest of Change, An Illustrated History

  Payne, Stephen M., 1946-

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  This volume chronicles the history of Santa Clara County through several eras of transition—from Indian habitation to Spanish and Mexican rule, from colonial status to California statehood, and from its nineteenth century acclaim as an agricultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passing Farms, Enduring Values

  California's Santa Clara Valley

  Jacobson, Yvonne, 1938-

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  This history of the Santa Clara Valley includes rare photographs from private collections, as well as images from some of America's foremost photographs. Relying on personal correspondence and other previously unpublished materials, Jacobson…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Martin Murphy Family Saga

  Pierce, Marjorie

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  The story of the colorful Martin Murphy family of California. Their tale begins in Ireland, takes them to Quebec and then to Missouri, before its historic 1844 overland journey to California. Pierce gives focused attention to the detail of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Were the Murphys

  California's Irish First Family

  Schmidt, Earl F.

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  Biography of the Murphy family, from their emigration from Ireland to Quebec in 1820 to the founding of Sunnyvale in the late 19th century.

• The Valley of Santa Clara

  Historic Buildings, 1792-1920

  Butler, Phyllis Filiberti

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  This book celebrates Santa Clara Valley's architectural heritage, with a page dedicated to the Collins-Scott Winery in Sunnyvale.

• Santa Clara Valley Memoirs

  Young, John V.

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  The anecdotes and episodes in this informal autobiography illustrate a bygone area in the Santa Clara Valley and San Jose region. From the late '20s to the early '40s, John V. Young worked as a newspaper reporter covering stories in San Jose, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunnyvale, City of Destiny

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  This volume by the California History Center represents a mutual effort of the students of De Anza and Foothill Colleges and the Security Savings and Loan Association to preserve the history and family heritage of Sunnyvale.

• High School Yearbooks

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  Browse our selection of yearbooks for Fremont and Sunnyvale High Schools and Columbia Community Elementary. These yearbooks are in-library use only.

• Sunnyvale Digital Archive

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  Browse more than 590 historic images. Images contributed by California History Center, Sunnyvale Historical Society and the Sunnyvale Public Library.