Picture This

Artifiacts in this featured collection are part of the OMCA's Picture This website. More about the context and history of each of these artifacts is available at Picture This

About Picture This: California's Perspectives on American History is a resource for teachers and students to learn about the experiences of diverse peoples of California by using primary source images from the Oakland Museum of California's collections. Organized into eleven time periods spanning from pre-1769 to the present, more than 300 photographs, drawings, posters, and prints tell stories from the perspectives of different ethnic groups. Historical contexts are provided to offer a framework of California's role in relation to American history.

The National Archives state that primary sources, "fascinate students because they are real and they are personal: history is humanized through them." Picture This invites students to examine the historical record, encouraging them to connect history with real people and explore how images tell stories and convey historical evidence about the human experience. History becomes more than just a series of facts, dates, and events.

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sticker United Farm Workers of America 1965 The strip of six repeating stickers is red black and white. On the top of the sticker is the UFW emblem of an Aztec Eagle, below there is a red strip with white writing that reads "BOYCOTT GRAPES...	photograph U.S. Army Mar-66 A typed piece of paper attached to the back, "Combat troops embarking for Southeast Asia from the Bay Area Military Ocean Terminal passenger pier at the Oakland Naval Supply Center. Virtually all...
photograph U.S. Army c. 1965 Label attached to the foam core on the back, "Young soldiers get a last cup of stateside coffee before boarding their troop ship to South East Asia." Photo shows a group of soldiers standing...	The Christian Stairway Thomas Houseworth \| San Francisco c. 1885 Chinese Girls' Presbyterian Mission Home at 933 Sacramento St. in San Francisco
photograph Morse \| San Francisco Photograph portrait of Mrs. Marietta L. Stow, showing her "Equal Rights Costume" Per Visitor Information Stations: Born in 1830, Marietta Stow graduated from Oberlin College. She began...	Fight at San Pasqual Myers Sketch. Description: "Fight at San Pasqual" "Naval Sketches of the War in California---Myers No -- 5" by Myers Color repro. - Men on horses, corpses on ground
America Setentrionale P. Mro Coronelli Venice 1688 Map. Description: Map of North America by P. Mro Coronelli Venice, 1688. (Originally identified as M.V. Coronelli Venice, 1689, but later corrected so it appears as above.) From the...	Naval Sketches of the War in California Meyers ca. 1846-48 Print. Description: Color print of a California Lancer. Shows man on horseback in uniform. Handwriting along the bottom of print reads "Naval sketches of the War in California" Meyers No 3"....
lantern slide M. S. Stewart Company ~ Oakland ca. 1900 Photograph. Description: Slide made from a line drawing depicting the entire Fort Ross settlement in its environmental surroundings. Image is bordered by a black and gold paper mat. "Made by M...	frame oil painting Lefty Wild Eagle 1964 Deerskin Picture w/frame. Description: White Deerskin dance picture with wood frame. pained by "Lefty" Wild Eagle 1964. Remarks: Not for Use Storage:N.W.CA., tribe unk. (Lower Klamath River...
photograph Houseworth \| San Francisco ca. 1915 "Warm Spring Indian - one of the capturers of the Modoc's"; "Houseworth's Celebrities, 9 & 12 Montgomery St. San Francisco."; negative also. Photographs. Description: a-j: Photographs of...	photograph Houseworth \| San Francisco ca. 1915 "Kloochy" - Old McCloud River Indian, 80 years of age; Houseworth Photographer, 12 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Photographs. Description: a-j: Photographs of Warms Springs Indians in costume,...
photograph Hodson \| Sacramento \| Oakland 22-Jun-10 Photos. Description: group scenes a. 6 men: "The Haymakers. Sacramento, Cal June 22nd 1910" b. 6 girls: same as above c. 7 girls: same as above d. group photo: "...	photograph Francis Stewart ~ photographer \| Tule Lake ~ Newell ca. November 3, 1942 (On back of photo) "Date 11/3/42"; (photo loction) "Tule Lake Center, Newell, Calif."; (data) "Sixth grade pupils in the classroom. Miss Mae Hart is the teacher." Photograph. Description: Shows...
lantern slide Edward Kemp ~ San Francisco ~ publisher ca. 1900 Photograph. Description: Portrait photograph of General Mariano G. Vallejo. A hand written, white paper label which reads: "Gen. M. G. Vallejo" is attached to the right hand margin on the back...	photograph Charles D. Fredericks \| New York ca. 1865 Pictures, People of Civil War Period. Miscellaneous sizes, some mounted. Acc.# 25.1163ZZ is of "John C. Fremont- "Pathfinder" - (In war with Mexico, Col. Fremont raised a small force of...
arm band Berkeley, Department of Design \| University Of California May-June 1970 Arm band. Description: 1 cotton arm band, silk screened on dyed cloth, May-June 1970, printed by textile students (see 74.87.31); design: clenched fist & peace sign; black on lavender....	postcard Edward H. Mitchell \| San Francisco Oct. 19-23, 1909 Post card. Description: 3-1/2"x x5-1/2". Invitation to San Francisco's Portola Festival, Oct. 19-23, 1909. Illustration of women, one dressed ca. time of Portola, one in clothing of 1909--city...
postcard Britton and Rey \| San Francisco Oct. 19-23, 1909 Postcard album. Description: "Post card album" containing about 406 postcards, black cover, back cover missing. Album belonged to Emma Halbrich Benner.	lithograph Barney McGettigan ~ painter Print, Mission Dolores
On the Way to the Summit (The Donner Party) ((The Donner Party)) William Gilbert Gaul c. 1891 APPROXIMATE DATE: 1891 NOTES: Arkelian, Marjorie. The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California. TOM. 1975, p. 25. The 49ers. N.Y.: Time-Life Books, 1974. ARTIST...