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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Mesi-Leader Harry Fonseca, Nisenan 1979-1992 15 drawings on tan paper in ink and colored pencil from a series on ceremonial dances of the Chico Maidu by Harry Fonseca. In 1979 Harry Fonseca, working with Craig Bates, started on a series of...	Right On! Rupert Garcia 1968
Grand Patent India-Rubber Air Line Railway to California Nathaniel Currier 1849 Reproduced in _The 49ers_, Time-Life Books, N.Y., 1974.	Portrait of Sir Francis Drake Robert White c.1720
Sun Mad Ester Hernandez 1982 This is a red, yellow, and green serigraph print that parodies the Sun Maid raisin logo with a skeleton and list of insecticide use.	Murphy's Camp, July, 1853 Isaac Wallace Baker July, 1853 APPROXIMATE DATE: JUL, 1853 NOTES: Reproduced in BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY, by Geo. Craven, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1974. ARTIST BIRTH: 1810
Return from the Bear Hunt William Hahn 1882	(San Francisco Chinatown) NELSON A. PRIMUS 1900 This is a painting of a crying child in San Francisco's Chinatown. The painting is painted after a photograph by Oscar Maurer which is in the Oakland Museum colelction (see A65.131.9 and A65...
Mother and Cat\|Miyo and Cat Mine Okubo 1941 NOTES: Handbook Selection, 1984. Received Anne Bremer Memorial Prize at 61st Annual Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture at SFMA, 1941.	Justice Meted Out to "English Jim" by the Vigilantes, San Francisco Harbor John Prendergast c. 1853 event was July 11, 1851
Californians Catching Wild Horses with Riata Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl n.d. NOTES: Arkelian, Marjorie. The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California. TOM. 1975, p. 48. Strong, Bryon. America: In Space and Time. Menlo Park, Ca.: Addison-...	California Miner with Pack Horse Henry Raschen 1887
Mountain Jack and a Wandering Miner E. Hall Martin c.1850 Handbook Selection, 1984.	California Indian Camp: Scene Near Mariposa Albert Bierstadt 1872 Arkelian, Marjorie. The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California. TOM. Loan out by Curator H. Jones 5/21/85. See Shelly Mills for details 221-4811 x 3515 on...
Yosemite Valley Albert Bierstadt 1868 APPROXIMATE DATE: 1868 NOTES: Handbook Selection, 1984. Hendricks, Gordon. Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with Amon Carter Museum...	San Francisco in July, 1849 George Henry Burgess 1891 Handbook Selection, 1984. There is extensive research material on this painting in the museum library.
Portrait of Eliza Jane Steen Johnson Charles Christian Nahl 1858	Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver Gordon Parks 1970\|2001 This is a portrait of Black Panthers Kathleen and Eldrige Cleaver, taken when the couple were in exile in Algiers. They are sitting in front of a portrait of Black Panther Huey Newton
Sarah Anne MacDougal with Elizabeth, January 1850, Upon Arrival in California unknown 1850	Monterey, California Rancho Scene Alfred Sully c. 1849 Handbook Selection, 1984.
Arastra ou manege mexicain pour le traitement du minerai aurifere G. Chassevent, H. Delaville 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 (...	photoprint 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Chinois lavant les sables auriferes du rocker G. Chassevent, Laly 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...	photoprint "Ishi, last of the Southern Yana tribe of Indians, formerly on Deer Creek, CA. His people remained wild and in hiding untile 1911, when the others having all died, he gave himself up near...