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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photograph C. 1920 North Central Sierra:California Indian	photograph 1900 The photo is of the San Diego Mission and Indian School. There are two primary buildings, a long rectangular stucco building, and a european style three story house. Both are on the crest of a...
postcard c. 1905	subpoena 1904 Document - Subpoena. Description: Subpoena for court appearance dated Sept. 12, 1904 served on Fong Hing for violation of Chinese Exclusion Acts. Several small tears along edges where fold lines...
political button c. 1970 Protest Button. Description: Button bearing black and white photolithographic image of Angela Davis, and legend: "Free Angela". Good condition. Dimensions: 5 cm in diameter.	negative photoprint c. 1904 Entrances to two mine shafts; man with shovel standing in the uppermost one. c. 1904. Two copy prints
lantern slide Lantern slides. Description: Scenes of San Francisco. "Pre-Fire Chinatown"	photograph 1912-1915 Photograph. Description: Title: Planks to presented by the National League of Woman Voters. Eight women sitting and standing around a board with the above title with six points that they want to...
photograph 12-Apr-06 Chinese loading stores and belongings aboard salmon packet to Alaska. April 12, 1906. San Francisco waterfront. Photograph. Description: Photograph, Chinese loading stores and belongings aboard...	color transparency ca. 1920-30 Color transparency. Description: Color transparency, mounted between sheets of glass; shows Mission San Antonio; edged with black tape. Condition good. Dimensions: 30" x 20". Remarks: This is...
postcard 1906 picture postcards. Description: Bay Area scenes: a. SF Skyscrapers overlooking bay towards Oakland, Berkeley. b. Noyo Beach tourist camp, Fort Bragg, California. c. Shrine...	photograph "From stereograph copyright 1905, by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.; Two great workers of higher citizenship, President Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington in the reviewing stand at Tuskegee...
flag Flag. Description: Huelga Flag. No pole. "Huelga. UFW AFL-CIO." From the History Information Station: Object: Red "Huelga" banner with white medallion in center. History:...	postcard Postcard; Mission Santa Clara de Asis, California - 1777; (on back)This picture shows the Mission Santa Clara and scenes of the daily life of its inhabitants in the early years soon after it had...
photograph c. 1900 Photograph of Cliff House. Description: photo affixed to cardboard mounting. Description of occasion printed on reverse. Made at night. Cliff House, San Francisco. A Japanese boy,...	political button 1967 Campaign pins. Description: Campaign pins (15) for:
lantern slide Sedgwick. Shows hydrolic mine in operation. Across the Continent. 4. Central Pacific, Sierra Nevadas and Calif. Hydrolic mining - In wood file cabinet. In this next section, I have grouped the...	lantern slide "Modoc braves on warpath" Indian aiming rifle, hat, on rock for decoy. Across the Continent. Indians. In this next section, I have grouped the slides, photographer unknown, according to Sedgwick's...
Landing of Captain Rogers, London ca. 1720 Print. Description: Landing of Captain Rogers, London, ca. 1720. 2786	photograph 1890's Photographs. Description: Photograph - Chinese Vegetable Vendor - Door to Door. Merchant pictured with bar across shoulders, basket at each end of bar. notation on back of photo. "Chinese...
photograph 1860's 11 x 14 photo of R. R. construction 1860's. Thousands of Chinese were imported to help build the first railroad over the Sierra, for American labor was more interested in digging for gold....	print work on paper 1850; 1939 S.F. in 1850 (Niantic Hotel) print made in 1939
photograph c. 1885 Photographs, Indian life; negative also (D. Curry, 1/9/2003) Handwritten on the back of the image, "Daggett Collction, Klamath woman with conical burden basket." The photo is a sepia...	ballot box 1883-1884 Ballot box, painted wood. Designed by a friend of the cause. Mrs. Stow, Oakland President, Founder of the Birdie Bell Kindergarten; Author of "Probate Confiscation" and other works. The first and...