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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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....

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...

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.

Print, Mission Dolores

Untitled (Portrait of an Indian Boy)
c. 1853
Untitled (Portrait of a Chinese Man)
c.1853

NOTES: Handbook selection, 1984. Reproduced in Symbols of Democracy, filmstrip, Q-ED Productions, Inc. (Burbank, Ca.),1974.

n.d.
n.d.

NOTES: Handbook Selection, 1984. See card, "Chabot-Bocqueraz Collection ARTIST BIRTH: 1826 ARTIST DEATH: 1898

1894

MOLLIE DUNCAN (c.1879-1931)

Mollie Pettis Duncan was born in Potter Valley, the daughter of Frank and Kate Pettis. She spent her childhood at the Coyote Valley Rancheria, and while...

1881
1938

chop

Indian of California
c. 1816
1862

from accession sheet: "The 48-page article we have "Voyage en Californie" by L. Simonin, appears to be one part of one semiannual issue of the periodical which Bancroft library has one year of (...

1850-1852
Californie Indien Dansant
n.d.
c. 1892

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1892

1862

from accession sheet: "The 48-page article we have "Voyage en Californie" by L. Simonin, appears to be one part of one semiannual issue of the periodical which Bancroft library has one year of (...

1871
c. 1858

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1858

1936
1938

Notes in Catalog Sheet Volume 4 read

Spring 1943

Handwritten on negative envelope: "On the Ferry - Day workers returning to San Francisco from Richmond Spring 1943"

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