Collection comprises 102 35 mm color Kodachrome transparency slides documenting construction of highways in Los Angeles, Oric... James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...
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.
Contains the earliest published photographic record of an American city. Documents the development of downtown San Francisco ... Materials in this collection, which were created in 1856, are in the public domain in the United States. Permission to publis... Missing plate: North and Northeast from First and Harrison Streets Also known as: San Francisco album. Missing plate: North and Northeast from First and Harrison Streets
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...
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...
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...
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...
