Official balloon route trip "Seeing China Town" and Seen on the personally conducted trip through Chinatown, Los Angeles, the largest Chinatown in the United States
Description:
Portrait: H.J. Lewis / Offical guide and interpreter of 16 years / experience in Chinatown / San Francisco
Subject (Geographic):
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, Chinese--United States, Tourism--California, and Travelers--California
Print depicts Denis Kearney, a leader of the Workingmen's Party of California and an Irish immigrant active in the late 19th century who was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants, behind bars in the San Francisco House of Correction, whe...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publ. by I.N. Choynski, antiquarian
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907 and Workingmen's Party of California
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, History, Labor policy, and Emigration and immigration
Sixteen albumen prints depicting a variety of locations and people in Southern California and Arizona. There are views of six missions, one of them identified as San Miguel, and three others probably the California missions San Buenaventura, San Luis ...
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, western photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Tehachapi Pass, Yuma (Ariz.), San Francisco, Pasadena (Calif.), and San Gabriel (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel, Calif.), San Buenaventura Mission, San Luis Rey Mission (Calif.), Santa Inés Mission (Solvang, Calif.), and Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Railroads, Chinese Americans, and Viticulture
A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an ident...
Description:
Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December.
Subject (Geographic):
California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
Watercolor painting with a title inscription in the lower center, "Mokelume River," which depicts a placer mining scene along the Mokelumne River in California with miners using sluice boxes and hoses for hydraulic mining as well as two Chinese Americ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mokelumne River, Mokelumne River (Calif.), and West (U.S.).
Subject (Name):
Burgess, George Henry, 1931-1905., Richardson, Edward., and Sprague, George H.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, Hydraulic mining, Placer mining, and Women
