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1. Borel Estate Offices in San Mateo, 1974 - Negative

   Borel Estate Offices in San Mateo, 1974. Color negative shows the newly built office building at 411 Borel Avenue near Highway 92 in San Mateo, California. The image shows a multi-story rectangular commercial building with tinted reflective glass across the exterior. The building reflects the parking lots, trees, and roadway nearby. Part of a series.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. Borel Place Building under Construction, April 16, 1965 - Negative

   Borel Place Building under Construction, April 16, 1965. Black and white photo negative of Borel Place Building under construction. (Aberthaw Construction Co project). Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Borel Place in San Mateo, May 11, 1966 - Negative

   Borel Place in San Mateo, May 11, 1966. Black and white negative of Dedication of new Borel Place Building in San Mateo. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Cotton Family Looking at Renderings of Borel Place, San Mateo, January 1963 - Negative

   Cotton Family Looking at Renderings of Borel Place, San Mateo, January 1963. Black and white negative shows San Mateo Superior Court Judge Aylett Cotton and family looking at renderings for the development of Borel Place in San Mateo, California. Judge Cotton sits at left in the image, facing an artist's rendering and a technical drawing of a building on a table at right. Two men stand on either side of Cotton facing the documents, including a y...

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Cris du Coeur: une parole de l'Ecriture sainte pour chaque jour du mois [Cries of the Heart: a word of Holy Scripture for each day of the month] - Unknown

   "Cris du Coeur: une parole de l'Ecriture sainte pour chaque jour du mois" [Cries of the Heart: a word of Holy Scripture for each day of the month]. Published by F. Killinger in Zurich, Switzerland. The small prayer guide contains excerpts from the Christian Bible with illustrations of plants and countryside landscapes. A piece of paper attached to the title page includes a French inscription written in black ink with cursive script. The prayer gu...

   Record Type: Library

   
6. Destruction of Borel Estates in San Mateo, October 1961 - Negative

   Destruction of Borel Estates in San Mateo, October 1961. Black and white negative shows a demolished house on Borel Avenue in San Mateo, California. In the foreground at right a wooden fence is visible with a sign that reads, "[PRIVATE] / PROPERTY." It has been painted over to read "BOREL 441." Beyond the fence in the distance is a large pile of debris including roofing materials and wooden planks. At center left, a bulldozer faces the wreckage...

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Le Guide du Bonheur, ou Recueil de Pensées, Maximes et Prières [The Guide to Happiness, or Compendium of Thoughts, Maxims, and Prayers] - Delessert, Benjamin

   "Le Guide du Bonheur, ou Recueil de Pensées, Maximes et Prières" by Benjamin Delessert. Published by Rousseau in 1840, second edition. Signed by "A. Borel" with an ink stamp for the Chateau de Gorgier in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

   Record Type: Library

   
8. New Building at Borel Place, March 8, 1965 - Negative

   New Building at Borel Place, March 8, 1965. Black and white photo negative of one of the newly completed buildings at Borel Place. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Untitled [Letter from Louis Bovet to his grandmother] - Letter

   Letter from Louis Bouvet to his grandmother on January 9, 1915. In the letter, Louis asks his grandmother for a hunting rifle owned by his grandfather. The text is handwritten in French with cursive script and appears on two sides of a cream-colored piece of paper (A). The letter was originally folded inside an envelope (B) that was stored inside a book titled "Le Guide du Bonheur, ou Recueil de Pensées, Maximes et Prières" (see 2019.115.001).

   Record Type: Archive