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California Perspectives on American History

Progressive Era: 1890–1920s

Native Americans Fight for Land, Identity, & Educationread more »view slideshow »

  • Ishi, last of the Southern Yahi tribe of California, poses for a portrait taken by a photographer for the University of California Museum of Anthropology #
  • "Kloochy," a McCloud River Indian, eighty years of age, poses outdoors #
  • A Warm Springs Indian man identified as "one of the capturers of the Modocs" poses in costume in an indoor studio with a classical setting for this postcard of the Houseworth's Celebrities series #
  • A woman and three children described as "Eastern Sierran" California Indians pose for the camera #
  • According to written records held with this photograph, "These Indian young people, Joseph, Andy, and Lizzie, were refused entrance to a local public school as children #
  • Man identified as a "North Central Sierra" California Indian #
  • Photograph of an Indian woman standing with a burden basket full of wood on her back and steadying herself with a walking stick #
  • Photograph of White Deer Skin Dance, Hupa Tribe #
  • Photograph of White Deer Skin Dance along the Redwood Highway, Hupa Tribe #
  • Photograph of Indian sweat house, Pecwan #
  • Photograph of an Indian woman sitting weaving a burden basket #
  • To-Tole (The Star) #

Allensworth, Black Pride & Pursuit of Civil Rightsread more »view slideshow »

  • Winners in Boy Scouts competition proudly show their winning projects #
  • The six young women in this posed portrait are identified as "The Haymakers" #
  • Charles E. Grace, a wealthy and famous African American religious leader and evangelist, is shown performing a baptism at the Oakland, California waterfront in front of World War I barracks with his racially integrated congregation #
  • A group of men employed as ship builders during WWII in Richmond, California #
  • A congregation poses for the camera on Easter Sunday, 1901, at Beth Eden Baptist Church on Filbert Street in West Oakland, California #
  • Pullman Porter Cap #

Immigration Period of Restrictionsread more »view slideshow »

  • A Chinese prostitute peers out of her room onto a street in San Francisco's Chinatown #
  • Parade passing Chinese and Japanese bazaar, Yon Yuen Sang & Company in Oakland, California's Chinatown #
  • Chinese Boy Scouts on parade through Chinatown #
  • Chinese dockworkers on San Francisco's waterfront loading supplies aboard a salmon fishing vessel headed to Alaska #
  • Japanese immigrants at work in a laundry #
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  • The Christian Stairway #
  • Cover of San Francisco's anti-Chinese Wasp magazine that advocated the end of Chinese Immigration to the United States #
  • Chinatown San Francisco, before fire and earthquake #
  • Street in Chinatown #
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  • Bong, a Chinese vegetable vendor with two baskets of fresh produce #
  • Scene of San Francisco, pre-earthquake & fire Chinatown #
  • Chinese merchant and wife, San Francisco, CA #
  • Chinese Joss House, San Francisco, CA #
  • New Year’s Day in San Francisco’s Chinatown #
  • Jug #

Racial Dissonance in Educationread more »view slideshow »

  • School children pose for a formal group portrait #

Progressive Political Reformread more »view slideshow »

  • President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama #
  • President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite, standing at Glacier Point #
  • Political flyer for the Progressive Party #
  • Poster of Roosevelt and Johnson #
  • Yosemite Valley (El Capitan & Bridal Veil Falls) #
  • Yosemite Valley #
  • Return from the Bear Hunt #
  • Yosemite Valley (From Below Sentinel Dome, as Seen from Artist’s Point) #
  • Half Dome (5000 Feet) and Glacier Point (3200 Feet), Yosemite Valley #

Women Suffrageread more »view slideshow »

  • Ballot box used as the first and only woman’s Presidential ballot box, used in the campaign of 1883-1884 #
  • “Planks to be presented by the National League of Women Voters” with eight women surround the board listing the planks #

Effects of 1906 Earthquakeread more »view slideshow »

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  • Early Statehood: 1850 – 1880s
  • Progressive Era: 1890–1920s
  • Depression Era: 1930s
  • World War II Homefront Era: 1940s
  • Homogenization, Protests & Outright Rebellion: 1950s
  • Unforgettable Change: 1960s
  • Cultural Realignment & Economic Recession: 1970s
  • The Reagan Years: 1980s
  • 1990s to Present

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