Contains seventy stereographs depicting views of the construction and surrounding landscape of the Central Pacific Railroad i... Alfred A. Hart was born in Connecticut in 1816. In 1865 he was commissioned to photograph the construction of the Central Pac...
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...
Mammoth plate photographs of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, taken by Carleton Watkins and printed between... Source of titles and negative numbers: Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, by Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Muse...
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...
Consists of photographs of contract engineering projects in California and the West, including roads, railway lines, and the ... Gift of Cynthia Lovewell; 2010. Chadwick & Sykes (George C. Chadwick and Frank C. Sykes) was a contracting and engineering firm located in San Francisco, cir...
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...
