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Women’s Co-operative Printing Union
A visually printed illustration showing one woman using a printing machine with the name ‘L.Curtis’ by her foot. Below is a transcript of different fonts and sizes reading “Every description of printing neatly executed, at the Women’s Co-operative…
California Fashions of Furs
A two page illustrated printed advertisement for the California fur fashions by Adolph Müller of San Francisco for 1868 and 1869. On the left, the illustration shows two women and a child dressed in various fur garments stood outside Adolph Müller's…
Cartoon, Supporting the exclusion of Chinese Immigrants
This Editorial Cartoon by N.H.Hawkins appeared in the Saturday Sunset Newspaper on the 24th August 1907, it is a black and white cartoon depicting White Immigrants being welcomed into Canada comparatively Chinese Immigrants, are being kept out by a…
Scene in Uncle Sam’s Senate
This is a political cartoon depicting a heated moment in the senate debate about admitting California as a free state, during the Compromise of 1850. On the left, Mississippi senator Henry Foot is pointing a pistol at the senator of Missouri, Thomas…
Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California
Black and white drawing of six Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near river. Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians in indigenous costumes at Mission San Jose,…
The landing of Captain Rogers's men at California, and their reception by the natives
Black and white print on paper, drawing, of scene along coast with sailors being brought ashore on rafts and greeted by Indigenous peoples in their encampment. There are cone-shaped thatched huts in distance. Sketched, patterned border.
Pictures…
Pictures…
Dance of native Californians at San Francisco de Assis Mission, California
Coloured drawing of dancing native Californians during mission activity under a huge symbol of Christianity, the cross. There are also religious buildings to the side. The Indians are holding spears and wearing native dress. The mission in question…
The Brig Thaddeus
A ship twenty-four feet wide and eight-five feet long, took the first missionaries to Hawaii, including Reverend Hiram Bingham. It took a 164 day route from Massachusetts, Boston to the Hawaiian Islands.
On board the Thaddeus many letters and diary…
On board the Thaddeus many letters and diary…
"We’re hoping to become Americans too”
This is an image in a newspaper of a group of Japanese people who were seeking American citizenship by entering Hawai’i. This was the hope of many Asian individuals who were seeking citizenship into the United States, even if the likelihood is that…
Cover of Time Magazine 11 May 1992
Image of a group of armed riot police running down a street with a blazing fire in the background caused by rioters in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. TIME written in bold red letters at the top of the cover, a motif of Time Magazine. Underneath there is…