Alice Hare, a Santa Clara Valley photographer, deeded a number of her historical photographs to the Board of Library Trustees of the Santa Clara
Library. An image of her letter is at left. Pictured on the right is earthquake damage at Agnews Asylum in April 1906. It is one of the photographs she deeded to the library.Born in Pennsylvania in 1859, Alice Iola Schnatterly married James W. Hare in 1877. They raised four sons moving from Pennsylvania to Illinois then to Santa Clara in 1895. Her photography studio was located at 1075 Madison St. in Santa Clara from the late 1890s until the early 1900s. She was a 1904 charter member of the Santa Clara Woman's Club, taking photos of the town's historical landmarks for the club.
Her photographs were displayed in the California Building at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. She won prizes and had photographs in Sunset Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and promotional brochures. To see more Alice Hare photographs visit Silicon Valley History Online or the Online Archive of California.
