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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…
Map of Pacific
This source is a map of the Pacific Ocean showing Hawaii at its center. The map highlights Hawaii’s importance to the US in that it was at the heart of all of America’s trade dealings in the Pacific at the time. The United States had access to…
Duke Kahanamoku at Huntington Beach
This picture shows Duke Kahnamoku standing on Huntington Beach with four white surfers with their surfboards stood up on the sand with the Pacific ocean in the background. Duke Kahnamoku is stood in the middle of the group wearing a white suit with a…
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 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.
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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,…
Glimpses of Hawaii
A front cover of Austin’s Hawaiian Weekly from October 1899, with the tagline “Devoted to the Interests of the Pacific”. This description ties in with the paper’s address of the Boer War later in one of its articles. The description of the paper and…
Ship passenger list arriving into ports of Victoria and Vancouver
Documents recording the arriving steamships and passengers into the ports of Victoria and Vancouver in January 1925. Recorded for the purposes of controlling the arrival of potential migrants to Canada. The documents offer significant detail on both…