In 1910 the population of San Jose was over 28,946. In 1914, Thomas Monahan was elected as the mayor of the city. East San Jose incorporated into San Jose, and Mount Hamilton became the starting point for the first motorbus line in the State.
Between 1900 and 1910, San Jose was a center of invention, innovation, and impact in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flights. San Jose also became a center of innovation for the mechanization and industrialization of agricultural and food processing equipment during this period. John Montgomery and his peers led most of the activities. In honor of Montgomery, San Jose has established Montgomery Park, a monument at San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads, and the John J. Montgomery Elementary School.
Here are some stunning historical photos of San Jose, California in the 1910s.
#1 House at 1345 Singletary, a Hester Tract home, 1917
#2 Flood at W. Santa Clara St., San Jose California, 1911
#3 Three story building/meeting place, 1910s
#4 Port San Say, Guadalupe River, San Jose 1910
#5 1919, San Jose, East San Fernando, B. F. Walker bicycle shop, 1919
#6 Flood at San Fernando & Locust Streets, San Jose, 1911
#7 Hotel Montgomery, San Jose, 1913
#8 Fred Wolff’s grocery store, corner of San Carlos and Gifford Streets San Jose, 1910s
#9 Hester Tract house, front view, 1916
#10 View of courtyard, Pomeroy house, 1916
#11 Garden Theatre Fire, San Jose, California, 1917
#12 San Jose Country Club, 1914
#13 C.P.S. (California Pacific School) vs. San Jose, 1911
#14 70 East Julian, San Jose, 1910s
#15 Posters in San Jose, 1910s
#16 View of courtyard, Pomeroy house, San Jose, 1911
#17 Military parade in San Jose, 1910
#18 Flooded State St. near Duane, San Jose, March 7, 1911
#19 C.P.S. (California Pacific School) vs. San Jose, 1911
#20 Winchester home near San Jose, 1910
#21 State Normal School, San Jose, Santa Clara County, 1914
#22 Normal Cooking Class, San Jose State Normal School, 1913
#23 San Jose State Normal School class in Household Chemistry, 1917
#24 University of the Pacific, San Jose, 1915
#25 Group portrait in front of the Chinese Methodist Episcopal Church, San Jose, 1910s
#26 Sarah E. Lester in front of her home on Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, 1914
#27 Peter Quivey House, North Fourth Street, San Jose, 1915
#28 Entrance State Normal School, San Jose, 1918
#29 Near First Street, San Jose (California), sowing the standing water across the entire street, 1911
#30 Santa Clara Street, San Jose, 1911
#31 Smith Creek Hotel, 1916
#32 San Jose-Los Gatos Interurban Rail, 1910
#33 First trip of the ship Sinaloa between Port San Jose and San Francisco, April 16, 1914.
#34 View from DiFiore Canning Company, 1915
#35 Looking south on Main Street, Mission San Jose, 1915
#36 First St., looking south from Santa Clara, 1910
#37 Santa Clara St., looking west from First, 1910
#38 Fire House – East San Jose Fire Dept, 1910
#39 Willow Glen School, 1910
#40 Williams & Krauss interior, San Jose, 1914
#41 Letcher Garage located at 214-224 North First Street near St. James, 1914
#42 View of house from the street, 1911
#43 Maxwell’s Cyclery Storefront, San Jose, 1916
#44 A.D.M. Cooper’s Studio, Twenty-first and Franklin, San Jose, 1915
#45 Osen and Mc Farland Motor Company moved two doors to the north on North First Street in this San Jose, 1910s
#46 Businessmen with Prunes for President Wilson, San Jose, 1918
#47 Young Australian League at Vendome Hotel, 1911
#48 Boiler Room, Los Gatos Cured Fruit Company corner Los Gatos and Almaden Road and San Jose-Los Gatos Road, 1914.
#49 Rose Carnival Parade, San Jose, 1910
#50 Velma Bernal, second from left, American Can Company, San Jose, 1919
#51 Hansen boys standing on road outside of Winchester estate, 1910s
#52 Santa Clara St., Sacramento Car, 1911
#53 Williams & Krauss at Alum Rock Avenue and Jones, East San Jose, 1910
#54 Port San Say, Lake Monahan, Guadalupe River, 1915
#55 Federal Telegraph Company’s San Pedro station, 1910
#56 Eagle Brewery from the Park on Market Street north of San Carlos Streett, 1910
#57 Corner of 13th and Santa Clara Streets, a View of House from the Road, 1910
#58 Hall of Records, Court House, and St. James Hotel, San Jose, 1915
#59 Flooding on San Carlos Street near Vine, March 1911
#60 Germania Parade Float, San Jose, 1910
#61 San Jose Court House, 1912
#62 Washington Grammar School, San Jose, 1910s
#63 San Jose Foundry Machine and Blacksmith Shop employees, 1915
#64 Group of eleven men and women gathered on or near two cars by the campus of San Jose State Teachers College, 1919
#65 World War I Victory Parade, 1918
#66 Bar-Room Scene, San Jose, 1913
#67 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#68 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#69 Saint Joseph’s Church, 1910
#70 Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Company Exhibit, 1915
#71 Liberty Bell, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#72 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#73 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#74 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#75 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
#76 Flooded 380 Park Avenue, 1911
#77 South First Street flood, 1911
#78 Bonfire, possibly at Stanford University, 1910s
#79 Pacific Manufacturing Co, 1913
#80 Boxing at Blackberry Farm, 1910
#81 Munson’s Pharmacy, 1918
#82 Residence of Congressman J. D. Phelan, Saratoga, 1914
#83 Kazi Gompa – Champethang, 1910s
#84 Back of McKinley statue, Court House and Saint James Park, 1910s
#85 Osen and McFarland Motor Company, 1910s
#86 Two people rowing a boat past houses on flooded Viola Avenue. (Viola was between Market Street and Orchard Street (Almaden Road), 1911
#87 View of the Guadalupe River during flood of March 7, 1911 with buildings and Holy Family church dome in the background
#88 Trolley Car, First St. near Humboldt, 1911
#89 Horse and wagon hauling a large log, 1910s
#90 Norma in front of house, 1910
#91 Lake County House and bar, 1910s
#92 ADM Coopers studio, 1910
#93 Ranch scene with cows and family members, 1915
#94 North-western Pacific Train and Depot, Marshall, 1915
#95 Female Institute, 1917
#96 Stanford Memorial Church, 1910s
#97 The Keystone Company, 1910
#98 Alviso shipyard, 1915
#99 Lick Observatory and Buildings, Mount Hamilton, 1910s
#100 National Bakery, 1910s
#101 A.D.M. Cooper Home, 1910
#102 South First Street Looking North March 7, 1911
#103 Scene with bikes, cars, people, buildings, 1910s
#104 A Country Home Gilroy, 1910
#105 Southbay Yacht Club, 1914
#106 Pagoda & Carousel, 1915
#107 Brick building, possibly Naval hospital, 1910s
#108 First St. near Humboldt, March 7, 1911
#109 House in New Almaden, 1910
#110 Jefferson School group with teacher, 1912
#111 Viola Avenue was between Market Street and Orchard Street (Almaden Road), and Auzerais Avenue and Balbach Street, 1911
#112 Father Catala’s Room, Mission Santa Clara, 1915
#113 Pomeroy house, view of the front and side of the house, from the street, 1911
#114 Sarah Brown Home on Bohlman Road, 1915
#115 Fredericksburg Brewery Engine Room, 1910
#116 Ostriches in Alum Rock Park, 1919
#117 Lightston Adobe, 1910s
#118 Flooded South Orchard St., March 7, 1911
#119 Bicycle store, 1910s
#120 Palmer Home, 1910
#121 J. F. Pyle & Sons Cannery, corner of Martha and Fifth, 1915
#122 University of Santa Clara Faculty Building, 1913
#123 Horse-drawn carriage on flooded Pierce Avenue, 1911
#124 Buildings Near Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, 1910s
#125 Circus tent in field, 1917
#126 Apricots in drying trays in Evergreen fields, 1910
#127 Flooded Park Avenue, March 7, 1911
#128 Garden City Bank and Wilcox Building, 1913
#129 Group of Sempervirens, 1910s
#130 Farming on Hoover at Harding Street, 1912
#131 Auzerias Street Bridge, 1911
#132 Tree Marking Site of First Pueblo on Hobson Street, 1915
#133 A. D. M. Cooper’s Studio, 1910s
#134 Auditorium Rink, San Jose, 1916
#135 Columbia Hospital, 1915
#136 Dawson House, 1914
#137 San Jose Safe Deposit Bank, 1910
Pedestrians, horse drawn vehicles and an automobile pass in front of the San Jose Safe Deposit Bank. Founded in 1885, the bank stood at the southeast corner of First and Santa Clara Streets. The bank was demolished in 1925 and the Bank of Italy constructed in its place.
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#138 Santa Clara, San Jose, 1919
#139 San Jose Fire Department equipment, North Market Street, 1916
#140 Man with horse drawn cart for San Jose Paper, 1910
#141 Electric light tower at night, 1915
#142 St. James Hotel and McKinley Monument, 1911
#143 Truck: Growers Packing and Warehousing Association, 1919
#144 Powell Bros. Cyclery, 1915
#145 Prairie style house built for Eugene Coe, 1910
#146 West Santa Clara Street after flood, 1911
The electric light tower can be seen in the distance. An automobile is making its way down the street. A blacksmith shop appears to be on the left. Featured in the "City with a Past" exhibit with this caption: The 1911 flood of the Guadalupe on Santa Clara Street looking east. The river has periodically flooded downtown San Jose.
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#147 I.O.O.F. Parade, 1919
#148 Southern Pacific Roundhouse, 575 Lenzen Avenue, 1910s
#149 W. Santa Clara St. Webb’s Photo, March 7, 1911
#150 Mitchell Car on Mt. Hamilton, 1910
#151 Commercial building at 28 North First Street, 1915
#152 Flood in San Jose, 1911
#153 De Luxe Dyeing – Imperial Dyeing & Cleaning Works, 1916
#154 Mission Motor Car Company, 1910s automobiles parked in front, 1917
#155 Mitchell automobile on flooded street, 1911
#156 Laurence Higuera at Mission San Jose, 1914
#157 Picchetti Brothers & Company Automobile Agency, 1915
#158 Emmy Lou and Grandma Bammann, 1916
#159 Corner of First Street and Santa Clara Street, 1915
#160 Geranium-covered fence. La Palmera Rancho, 1911
#161 Sunkist Oranges; Blase Bros. & Company, Fruit, Wholesale, Produce, 1916
#162 Royal Presidio Chapel, Monterey, 1910
#163 Douglas Perham, F. Albertus and Peter Jensen of Poulsen Wireless Company, 1910
#164 Blase Bros. & Company, Triangle Potatoes, 1916
#165 Palo Alto Railway Station, 1910
#166 Armistice Day Parade, 1918
#167 Hotel Del Monte, 1910
#168 Stanford Memorial Church, 1910
#169 Triangle Potaotes; Blase Bros. & Company, 1916
#170 Foster Optical Co., 1910
#171 Federal Telegraph laboratory in Palo Alto, 1913
#172 Mission Motor Car Company, 1918
#173 Tamale Flood, 1910
#174 Sunkist Oranges; Blase Bros. & Company, 1916
#175 Sherman Rose Adobe, 1910s
#176 Agnews Clock Tower, 1918
#177 Fruit Drying at Dutard Ranch, 1910
#178 Alviso Regatta, 1912
#179 Horse Drawn Crop Sprayer, 1910
#180 University of the Pacific, 1910
View of East Hall on the campus of the University of the Pacific located in the College Park area of San Jose. East Hall housed the men's dormitory on the third floor and classrooms, a library, and laboratories on the other floors. University of the Pacific moved to Stockton in 1925.
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#181 View from DiFiore Cannery, 1915
#182 Street Scene, San Jose, 1910
#183 Centella Methodist Episcopal Church, 1915
#184 Bloom’s Shoe Store, San Jose, 1913
#185 Auditorium Rink, 1910
The Auditorium Rink opened in 1909. It stood on the east side of Market Street just north of San Carlos Street. The rink was used for roller skating, flower shows, dances, basketball games and other diversions. The building was demolished in 1918. The site is now occupied by the Casa Del Pueblo Retirement Community.
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#186 YMCA Building, 1913
Pedestrians stroll by the new YMCA building at the corner of Third and Santa Clara Streets. An automobile is parked in the street in front of the building. The building opened in 1913. Facilities included a reading room, a billiard room, a swimming pool, an assembly room, and 75 dormitory rooms.
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#187 Street scene showing stately buildings, San Jose, 1910
#188 Waverly Street, 1912
#189 Winton grammar school, Merced County, 1915
#190 Winton train depot, Merced County, 1913
#191 College of Notre Dame Courtyard, 1910s
#192 Rear View of the Winchester Mystery House, 1910s
#193 Hall of Records and Hall of Justice, 1910s
The first building on the far right is the Santa Clara County Hall of Records. The Hall of records was built in 1892. It held county records such as deed, birth and death certificates. It was demolished in 1962. The building on the right with the dome and front columns is the Santa Clara County Courthouse.
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#194 Fruit drying at Dutard Ranch, 1910
#195 Hotel Vendome, 1910
#196 Pacific Manufacturing Company, 1910s
#197 West Main Street, 1910s
#198 Mission San Jose School and Students, 1910
#199 G. H. Anderson home on North First Street, 1911
#200 About thirty children of various ages stand in front of Doyle School, 1910
#201 University Avenue, Palo Alto, 1913
#202 Abbey on Joaquin Miller estate, 1910
#203 Bolinas wireless station, 1910s
#204 Santa Clara County court house, 1912
#205 Lyric Theatre, 1914
#206 First National Bank, 1911
First National Bank, built in 1909 at the southwest corner of First and Santa Clara. It was the second "skyscraper" in San José, and towered over everything except the Electric Light Tower. Car 129 was later restored to operate again in the downtown Transit Mall.
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#207 Ground breaking for the Montgomery Hotel, 1911
#208 Armistice Day Parade, 1919
#209 Employees of O’Brien’s Candy Store posing for a group portrait, 30 South First Street, San Jose, 1910
#210 Downtown shoppers watching Art Smith and his flying machine, 1912
#211 West Santa Clara Street after flood, 1911
#212 Rotary Club caravan to San Francisco, 1915
#213 Trolley Car 124 in operation at History Park, 1912
Car 124 is driven by two, 65-horsepower electric motors, and is referred to as "California" style because of its open-air design. Purchased by the San José Railroads for $5,700, it ran in San José on the Santa Clara and First Street Lines from 1912 to 1934. In 1934 the body was sold for use as a house, and was later one of the first cars to be donated to the California
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#214 Port San Say, 1915
#215 Street scene outside Mercury and Herald offices, 1910
View of West Santa Clara Street looking towards First Street. The Bank of San Jose is in the background, and a "Mercury" bike stand can be seen in the right foreground, at 30 West Santa Clara Street, headquarters of the Mercury and Herald newspapers. From an album of snapshots by Clifford J. Owen.
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#216 Mercury banquet, 1910
In 1900 brothers Jay Orley "Black" Hayes and Everis Anson "Red" Hayes bought the Evening Herald, followed by the Mercury in 1901. The Hayes family controlled the paper for the next half-century. In 1932 the brothers established a family corporation, and their sons became co-publishers. Seen here at a banquet during the early days of the Mercury are Clara L. Hayes and J. O. Hayes seated, 8th & 9th from left; E. A. Hayes standing,14th from left at head table.
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#217 Courthouse and Hall of Records, 1914
Courthouse and Hall of Records on North First Street on July 4th, 1914. In 1931 the Courthouse was gutted by fire. It was reconstructed with a new third story and without the dome.
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loved the photos – thank you!
