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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photoprint c. 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire.	photoprint c. 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire.
photoprint c. 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire. Howard Str. burning.	photoprint "Indian dance at Mision San Jose"; original drawing by an unidentified artist, and engraved on copper; etched on copper - private press of T.C. Russell, San Francisco; (this copy print reproduced...
photoprint c. 1910	Mrs. J. C. Fremont at Marapose [sic] unknown 1867 Photograph album of leather, containing 200 photos. Property of Sylvia Salome Knapp 1867. Photos have been separately numbered; see 26.619a-z, 26.2759a-z, 26.2760a-z, 26.2761a-z, 26.2762a-z, 26....
Chinese Dragon Parade M.L. Cohen \| Photographer c. 1910 Parade or celebration in Oakland's China Town c. 1910 in front of Chinese and Japanese Bazaar, Yon Yuen Sang & Company Inez Brooks-Myers, January 6, 2011: Although this photogrph may be...	photograph Edward Rogers 1906 Looking down Market Street during the fire. Snapshots of San Francisco. Earthquake and fire, 1906. (D. Curry, 3/16/99) Photo was taken by Edward "Doc" Rogers who was one of the first...
lantern slide Andrew J. Russell #554 Hydrolic Gold Mining - Gold Fields. Old number Russell negative number. See donor file.	photonegative Andrew J. Russell c. 1868 Photograph. Title: 225 Laying Last Rail Promontory (Scratched on negative) Image Description: See title. Physical Description: "Imperial Plate" collodion glass negative, 10"X13 ". Sub. Cat...
photoprint 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire. Temporary Camp in Hamilton Square Steiner St., between Geary and Post Streets.	photoprint c. 1906 Photo prints. Description: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire; (376) images split amongst 4 accession numbers. History: This collection has been split into several sections to reduce the number...
Placer Gold 1942 Photographs, 1 set, "Placer Gold". Progressive study prints. (1-20) (Joellen Lippett, 3/4/97) The label on the back of the photo states: "The first tool used by the placer miners was the...	photoprint 1906 Earthquake refugees.
photoprint Willard E. Worden 1906 Photo Prints. Description: San Francisco earthquake and fire.	photograph 1932 From "Swanson, Gloria Actress" folder. From caption on front of photograph: "Gloria Swanson in 'Tonight or Never'". Photograph of Gloria Swanson in the 1931 movie...
photograph unknown 14-Dec-42 Black and white photograph of actress/dancer Ann Miller. Miller is wearing a dark and light striped collared shirt, suspenders and a hat. She is displaying a box in her hands on which is written...	photograph unknown 17-Aug-63 Photograph of three latino male farmworkers in a lettuce field. The man in the center is holding up several bunches of lettuce. Behind them are other workers in the distance and a large pick-up...
photograph unknown n.d. Caption, verso: "Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov: The Czar's ambitious chamberlain."	photograph Wide World Photos 6-Jul-34 Tribune caption on the back, July 6, 1934-- "LOOK OUT- Rioters flee before onslaught of corps of officers, brandishing night sticks and shooting tear gas bombs from special guns. Strikers shown...
photograph unknown 18-Dec-67 Clipping on back of photograph reads: "Anti-war demonstrators sit down across Clay Street to block buses bound for Oakland Armed Forces Induction Center." Many news cameramen are nearby,...	photograph Tommy McDonough ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune 4-Dec-64 Handwritten on the back, "Mario Savio as he arrived on campus." Photo shows Savio speaking with another student in front of Sproul Hall. The other student is holding a sign that says "This...
photograph Russ Reed 1-Oct-64 Handwritten on the back, "Group against the sit-downs." Photo shows a group of students sitting and standing on the steps of Sproul Hall on the U.C. Berkeley campus. They are holding up signs...	photograph Tommy McDonough ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune 6-Nov-64 Photo shows Mario Savio giving a speech to a group of students in front of Sproul Hall on the U.C. campus. He is apparently giving a speech for the Free Speech Movement.