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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ca. 1943

Note in Catalog Sheet Volume 5 page 46: "NYC's 6th Ave EL - imported to Richmond to transport workers from Oakland to yards"

Half Dome (5000 Feet) and Glacier Point (3200 Feet), Yosemite Valley
circa 1880

ARTIST BIRTH: 1835 ARTIST DEATH: 1918

c.1935
1936

This is apparently Lange's own copy negative of the original in the posession of the Library of Congress

10-Aug-38

Notes in Catalog Sheet Volume 4 read: Publications AMEX-'69-pg 47 AMEX '39-pg 51 subtitle "mid-continent"; "on 40 acres of Black Jack and Post Oak, cultivating 7; $26.40 a...

Imperial Valley | Imperial Valley - Migrant Labor Camp
Apr-35

ARTIST BIRTH: 1838 ARTIST DEATH: 1923

1886
1853
1935
n.d.
Yosemite Valley  (El Capitan & Bridal Veil Falls)
n.d.
On the Way to the Summit (The Donner Party)  ((The Donner Party))
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...

1902

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1902 ARTIST BIRTH: 1860 ARTIST DEATH: 1932

c. 1910

May or may not be Monterey, but appears to be Monterey Bay. May be San Francisco. Further research needed. jc 9/94

n.d.

NOTES: Series of Amer. Indians on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California

n.d.

NOTES: Series of Amer. Indians on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California

29-Jun-42
c.1938

This print was boxed with Office of War Information prints (Spanish Americans - Sept. 1943)

n.d.

NOTES: Source unknown. Donor unknown. ARTIST BIRTH: 1869 ARTIST DEATH: 1942

n.d.
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