Contains photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, and photographs Chinese American inhabitants of San Fr... Many of the titles Genthe chose for his images contain language and descriptions considered offensive or inaccurate. For a co...
Selected items from the Reginaldo F. del Valle papers, which consists of business, political, family, and personal papers, in... Reginaldo del Valle was a prominent Mexican American politician and civil servant. He served in the Calif. State Assembly (18...
Consists of various materials collected and maintained by William J. Mountin, gathered in the course of his work in the Stati... William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration, ...
Complaints, answers, subpoenas, briefs, summonses, affidavits, testimony, attorney's notes, a mortgage, a deed, letters, and ... Previously titled: Wellington Cleveland Burnett legal documents, 1855-1872. Burnett was a San Francisco attorney.
Collection consists of 17 certificates of residence for Chinese laborers in California, dated from 1894 to 1897. Each certifi... Under the provisions of the 1892 Geary Act, which amended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, all Chinese in the United States...
The Peoples Temple Publications Department Records mainly consists of photographs created or collected by Peoples Temple memb... The California Historical Society is developing a process for identifying individuals pictured in photographs from the People...
Selections from the Dick Dobbins collection, which includes materials pertaining mainly to the Pacific Coast League (PCL), an... Dick Dobbins, a resident of Berkeley, California, began collecting baseball cards in 1946, the beginning of a life-long passi...
The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II... Farr was a Calif. Democrat who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960.
