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FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE
San Jose, California, founded as Pueblo de San Jose de
Guadalupe by St. Jose Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777
just some seventeen months after the Declaration was a-
dopted in 1776 in Philadelphia.
By vote of California's first Constitutional Convention on
September the 26th 1849, San Jose became California's
first State Capital. One year prior to the State's Admission
to the Union. The Metropolitan area population is approxi-
mately one-half million people, it is situated one hundred
feet above sea level, has nineteen parks, one hundred and
one churches, and is located merely fifty miles south of
San Francisco, California. Color photo by Igor Stchogoleff
MIRRO-KROME ® CARD BY H. S. CROCKER CO., INC., SAN FRANCISCO 1, CALIF.
PUB. BY SMITH NEWS Co., 1338 MISSION ST., S. F. CALIF.
