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Rural Chinese setting
This wet plate glass negative photo is in good condition despite the rough edges around the image due to the complicated procedures required to maintain pictures in this regard. In the picture of a Chinese settlement we can see a various amount of…
Sugarcane Field
In regards to migration, sugarcane fields were a place where many people worked in order to make some money, so they could afford to live in their new home and support their families in a new environment. There were a lot of strikes to improve work…
Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, Roll 1, Aadriane, Pedro-Alfeche, Matias
This is another part of a Shipping Manifest, this time of a passenger from the Philippines. This 22-year-old male was travelling aboard the President Cleveland Ship, on March 14 1924. This is an important document, as we know there were many jobs…
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Sargent Heeds the Labour Unions
This newspaper talks about a meeting, that Mr. Frank Sargent had, when he went before the Senate committee. In previous conversations between Mr Sargent and a Mr. Haywood, Sargent had made it clear that he saw no particular objection to the admission…
The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831 – 1904
Bird expresses her adoration for the Hawaiian Islands and discusses her many activities such as visiting volcanoes and horseback riding in the scorching heat. She also shows admiration towards the governmental structure of Hawaii regarding it as the…
Japanese Sugar Plantation Workers
This image shows Japanese sugar plantation workers on their home in Wainaku, clutching onto their very young children. Japanese immigrants first arrived in Hawai’i not long before this photograph was taken and akin to the Chinese immigrant’s…
Plantation Manager’s Home, Waianae, Oahu
This is a black and white image of a Waianae Plantation Manager’s Home. A vast amount of land encapsulates the image, with the home in the distance masked by palm trees. This overtly depicts the immense workable land and covertly indicates the amount…
Chisel
This object is a chisel, most likely used by labourers during the Gold Rush Era, and in the development of the railway network in California. Chisels were digging tools which helped to shape the metal railway tracks that were gradually laid across…
Abraham Lincoln Swears He Shall Not Modify The Emancipation Proclamation, Or Return To Slavery Any Person Freed By It
This is a handwritten letter by President Abraham Lincoln to Henry Wright, a member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society. Lincoln vows in 1863, not to revoke or modify the Proclamation, or return any slave to their former bonded labour. Although…
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…