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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1906]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1911
- Collection Title:
- To and from California
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Mounted in scrapbook
- Alternative Title:
- 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
- Collection Created:
- 1906 Jul 6-Aug 21
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Some of the sights seen only on our Chinatown trip
3.
- Published / Created:
- 1877 or 1878?
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +154
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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, where Kearney was detained; a group of stereotypically drawn ethnically Chinese men mock Kearney in his cell holding various objects representing their employment, seafood, including a fish labeled "Black Friday" (after the stock market catastrophe that took place on September 24, 1869 due to gold speculation panic and initiated a state-wide depression in the 1870s), laundry, and cigars; baskets filled with fish on floor; "House of Correction, 181" on sign above prison cell door
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Other states of print in color.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The tables turned : you sabe him, Kealney must go.
4.
- Creator:
- Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899, compiler
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1874]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 626
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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 identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
- 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., Captions in English., Captions in the negative., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger., and Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].
5.
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2733
- Collection Title:
- Peter E. Palmquist Collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 82
- Image Count:
- 2
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural laborers--West (U.S.) --Pictorial works, Chinese Americans, and Fruit trade--West (U.S.)--Employees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Photograph of Chinese fruit pickers]
