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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…
Waiting for the Signal From Home
The Cartoon is titled “Waiting for the Signal From Home” and it shows thousands of Japanese people who are all stereotyped marching from Washington, through Oregon and to California to pick up blocks of explosives from a small shed named “Honorable…
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…
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…
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…
Rossland’s Gold Rush
This source is a watercolour image set in Rossland, a mining town, in 1891. It shows a miner holding a pick axe on his shoulder, showing to the viewer of the image what can be assumed as a golden nugget. In the background is a row of wooden…
Receiving The Manila Volunteer
A newspaper article from The San Francisco Call dated Sunday June 12, 1898 titled ‘Receiving the Manila Volunteers’. Mrs Wendell Easton, the Chairman Committee of Nurses within the Red Cross Society states how they plan to ‘fit out a hospital’ on a…
Queen Liliuokalani entering Iolani Palace to begin her imprisonment
A drawing based on a photograph, depicting Queen Liliuokalani beginning her confinement in her palace. The picture was featured in an unknown San Francisco paper. Although no specific date is given Queen Liliuokalani’s region of Hawaii, as its last…
Journal of a lady’s travels round the world: with illustrations from sketches by the author. Alternate title: A lady’s travels round the world
This source is a journal/diary which has been published into a book focusing on the voyages of F.D Bridges and her husband who were both anglo-canadian elites. It provides the reader with greatly detailed insights about the areas and geographical…
Image of Chinese immigrants at the San Francisco Custom house
This image is from the front of Harper’s Weekly, a popular magazine during the 19th century. The picture depicts a line of Chinese immigrants getting off a boat at San Francisco and waiting in a room. The room is identified as the custom house. The…