California Documentary History Book

Chapter One

The Song she Got from the Hawk: Indigenous Life

1-1 Seasonal Round

1-2 Baskets

1-3 Girl Who Married a Rattlesnake, Charley Brown, Pomo

1-4 Indigenous woman with Basket

1-5 Summons to a Mourning Ceremony, Chief Yanapayak

1-6 Crossing the Bay

1-7 Indigenous Tools

1-8 A Doctor Acquires Power

Chapter Two

The Region of the Earthly Paradise: Spanish Conquest 1690-1821

2-1 Title Page, The Labors of the VeryBrave Knight Esplandian, Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, 1510

2-2 Th e Labors of the Very Brave Knight Esplandian, Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, 1510

2-3 Official Account of the Rodriguez Cabrillo Expedition

2-4 Quotation by Franciscan Mystic, Geronimo de Mendieta (1525-1604).

2-5 A Letter from Vizcaino to King Felipe III of Spain

2-6 Painting, How Two Indians, Fr. Ignacio Tirsch, S. J.

2-7 Painting, Picture of the Dresses, Fr. Ignacio Tirsch, S. J.

2-8 Letter by Luis Jayme, San Diego, October 17, 1772

2-9 The Journals of Jean Francois de la Perouse

2-10 Chupa Mirtos Watercolors , Fr. Ignacio Tirsch, S. J.

2-11 Spanish California Census of 1798

2-12 Coyote by Jose Del Pozo

Chapter Three

Long Live the Mexican Empire: l820-l848

3-1 Image of Father Duran and An Indigenous Child

3-2 Excerpt from Don Pio Pico’s Historical Narrative

3-3 Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

3-4 Cayetano Juarez and Son

3-5 Christina Delgado Land Grant, 1834.

3-6 Description of Christina Delgado’s Land Grant

3-7 Life on a California Rancho, Jose Del Carmen Lugo, 1840

3-8 Painting, Bear/ Bull: 3 Men and Bear

3-9 Painting, Bear/ Bull: Mexican men on Horses and Bull

3-10 Field hands identified as Californios on the porch of the former San Fernando Mission

3-11 Laborers, Adobe brick makers at Casa Verdugo.

3-12 Neophyte Indian serving as a zanjero

3-13 Cattle Brands, 1819

3-14 Excerpt from Andrew Garriga’s Compilation of Herbs and Remedies Used by the Indians and Spanish Californians

3-15 Times gone by in Alta California, Juana Machado, 1837

Chapter Four

The Road to California Will be Open to Us: American Settlement l840-l849

4-1 Excerpt from letter by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, l84l.

4-2 Drawing of overland trip

4-3 Proclamation by Thomas AP Catesby Jones, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Naval Forces, to the People of the

Californias, l842

4-4 Response by Antonio Maria Osio, l842

4-5 Antonio Maria Osio

4-6 Indigenous Woman Warm Springs

4-7 Excerpt from George C. Yount and His Chronicles of the West

4-8 Life in California Before the Gold Discovery, John Bidwell, 1890

4-9 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

4-10 California Constitution

Chapter Five

Cooking Eggs at Three Dollars a Dozen: Gold Rush and Immigation l849-l869

5-1 Trip around the Horn

5-2 Painting, Crossing the Isthmus

5-3 Excerpts from Carrie Williams Diary, 1858-1864

5-4 Excerpt from Fingers to Finger Bowls: Gold Rush Recipes

5-5 Daguerreotype, 1852

5-6 An excerpt from the Daily Alta California,1849

5-7 Daguerreotype, Miners near Auburn

5-8 Foreign Miner’s Tax, 1852

5-9 Early Vallejo, The “Old Stone House”

5-10 Joaquin Miller, from My Life Among the Indians

5-11 Sam Pitt

5-12 Bogus Charley

5-13 Travel Suggestions for Stagecoach Passengers, 1864

5-14 Terminus Railroad

5-15 Mary Ellen Pleasant

5-16 Mary Ellen Pleasant, court document

5-17 Susheel Bibbs as Mary Ellen Pleasant

Chapter Six

A Thousand Plows: Farming and Citizenship 1870-1900

6-1 Excerpt from William H B’s Personal Observations on Conduct of Modoc War

6-2 Donald McKay

6-3 Modoc War

6-4 Excerpt from Menefee, Historical and Descriptive Sketchbook of Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino, 1873

6-5 Children Dressed as Indians, 1895

6-6 Letter, HH J, 248, March l2, l883

6-7 HHJ

6-8 Ruth Berg Longhurst, 1895

6-9 Excerpt from Roughing It by Mark Twain, 1872

6-10 Excerpt from Adobe Days by Sarah Bixby Smith, l925

6-11 Wheat threasing

6-12 High Speed Train, 1869

6-13 Diary of Vacaville Farmer, Elise Buckingham

6-14 Drying Raisins

6-15 California Exhibits at Chicago Columbian Exposition, 1894

6-16 Cherry Picking

6-17 Chinese Family

6-18 Cartoon of Anti-Chinese Riots, 1870’s

6-19 Fireman and Callboy photo

6-20 Map of anti-chinese violence

6-21 Vallejo Steam Laundry

6-22 1896 Suffragists

Chapter Seven

Buffalo Soldiers in the Heart of America: Progressives and Empire l900-l9l4

7-1 Document, “Kill everyone over 10”

7-2 Document, Colonial Expansion, October 1898

7-3 Mel Orpilla, Offspring buffalo soldier/Filipino woman

7-4 Portuguese Picnic

7-5 Circus in Vallejo

7-6 Girls at Vallejo School photo

7-7 Maud Younger, The Diary of an Amateur Waitress, 1907

7-8 Maud Younger

7-9 Photo of first women voting, 1912

7-10 Chinese man with political button

7-11 Edwards Francis Adams statement against Recall Legislation.

7-12 Mortimer Downing, Report on Wheatland Riot, Solidarity, January 3, l9l4

7-13 John Muir and William Kent in Muir Woods, 1908

7-14 Yone Noguchi poem, “I Hear You Call Pine Tree”

Chapter Eight

Feathery Almond Trees against a Lavender Horizon: The Great War and its Aftermath l9l5-l929

8-1 “California Colors” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Forerunner 6 (April 1915)

8-2 Joseph Alexander

8-3 Pan Pacific Exhibition

8-4 Excerpt from To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman, Lucy Thompson, 1916

8-5 Dorothy Day report document on Tom Mooney, 1937

8-6 Poster of Monticello Steamship Strike, 1916

8-7 Draftees on Court House steps

8-8 Armistice Day Parade

8-9 “Sisters All,” Susan Minor, Overland Monthly, 73, May l9l9.

8-10 Jesusita Torres, farmworker

8-11 Excerpt from Ernesto Galarzo, “On the Edge of the Barrio”

8-12 Letter by Upton Sinclair about San Pedro, 1923

8-13 Upton Sinclair’s Singing Jailbirds performance

8-14 Poster of Singing Jailbirds, 1924

8-15 Dedication Ceremony, Liberty Hill, 1998

8-16 Bernardo Bachelor

8-17 Tamborelli Sisters

8-18 Behrens Sweetshop

8-19 Baseball Broadcast

8-20 Main Street in Locke, California

8-21 Ground Breaking for Carquinez Bridge

8-22 “Life Among the Oil Fields,” Hisayo Yamamoto DeSoto, 1979

8-23 Oil Fields, Santa Barbara

Chapter Nine-I Produce, I Defend: Depression and The New Deal 1929-1940

9-1 Edith Gentry

9-2 “Recollections of a Valley Past,” 1985

9-3 Cortez community, Turlock Melon Carnival

9-4 Cortez community, Sam Kuwahara

9-5 Cortez community, baseball team

9-6 “The Thief” by Carlos Bulosan in On Becoming Filipino

9-7 Homeless shelter, Santa Barbara

9-8 Women sewing in day work relief program, Santa Barbara

9-9 Poem, “First Spring in California 1936” by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

9-10 Song, “Arizona,” American Memory Project

9-11 Shafter farm labor camp musical recording session

9-12 Outstretched Hands by Otto Hagel

9-13 June Stephenson memoir, l934 strike

9-14 Bill Bailey

9-15 Bill Bailey’s house

9-16 Elaine Black Yoneda memoir, 1934 strike

9-17 Funeral March, woodcut by Adelyne Cross Erickson

9-18 Carmen Escobar, 1936

9-19 Carmen Escobar with negotiating committee, cannery workers

9-20 Oral history, Ann Milam, ILWU Dispatcher, February l996

9-21 Salinas lettuce strike, Hansel Meith

9-22 EPIC pamphlet

9-23 EPIC poster

9-24 EPIC dollar

9-25 Mural by Helen K. Forbes, Susanville Post Office

9-26 Helen Douglass visiting New Deal project

9-27 Excerpt article by Joseph Danysh, l976

9-28 Seven Card Stud with Manangs Wild, Vangie Buell

9-29 Vangie Buell

9-30 Movie theatre Vallejo

Chapter Ten

You Are Helping to Make History: World War II 1941-1946

10.1 Air raid warning

10-2 So what’s the worst that could happen?, Geri DiGiornio

10-3 Mitsuye Endo

10-4 Testimony of Akemi Kikumura, Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman

10-5 Bracero-Vega family

10-6 Gary Soto, A Red Palm

10-7 Filipino regiment

10-8 Brownies in Vallejo

10-9 Chochis and the movies at Sanfer, Mary Ellen Ponce, l984

10-10 Vallejo, “Helping to Make History”

10-11 Margaret Almstrom

10-12 Fanny Walker memoir from ILWU Dispatcher, February l996

10-13 Vallejo parade

10-14 Maxine Meyers letters, Richmond Times, October 11, 2000

10-15 Horsemeat

10-16 Sybil Lewis memoir

10-l7 Joseph James

10-18 Ethel Gary

10-l9 Interview with Billie Hendricks, March 2005

10-20 Billie Roberts Hendricks and daughter Sallie, February l945

10-21 Local 6 women, Labor Day Parade, San Francisco, l945

10-22 Paul Robeson, San Francisco

10-23 Howard Baskin

Chapter Eleven

A Cold War at Home: l946-l965

11-1 “The Grine: Refugees from the Holocaust,” interviews by Kenneth Kahn

11-2 Photos and text from Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, Don Normark

11-3 Photos and text from Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, Don Normark

11-4 Photos and text from Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, Don Normark

11-5 Photos and text from Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, Don Normark

11-6 Toribio, “A Pickle for the Sun,” by Bill Sorro

11-7 Ricardo Alvarado, Jackson Nook

11-8 Mare Island workforce

11-9 Blacklist—Evelyn Velson

11-10 Evelyn Velson and husband Charles, mid-1950s

11-11 Women on Strike for Peace

11-12 Non-signers of Levering Act (LARC)

11-13 Poster, “Save this Right Hand’ by Rockwell Kent

11-14 Community Service Organization registering voters in Fifties

11-15 “The Republic of Burma Shave,” by Richard Katrovas, 1985

11-16 “A Juk Sing Opera,” by Genny Lim, l988

11-17 John Becker “An Air that Kills”

11-18 Family pumpkin center

11-19 Don Hevernor, auto training teacher

11-20 Tony Magnatay

11-21 George and Mary Ellen Boyet’s wedding, 1963

11-22 Karese Young

11-23 Woman picketing Elks, l964

11-24 Mario Savio by Ronald Riesterer, 1964

Chapter Twelve

A Front Row Seat Watching the World Change 1965-1980

12-1 Gary Soto,“Field”

12-2 Excerpt from Silver Cloud Café, “Zeferino’s Fathers,” Alfredo Vea, l996

12-3 Cesar Chavez, “The Organizer’s Tale”

12-4 End of Cesar Chavez fast

12-5 Jose Garcia, ID card

12-6 UCLA Daily Bruin, Grape Strikers May 2, l966

12-7 Dorothy Day, l973

12-8 Ronald Riesterer, Students Holding Signs, l967

12-9 Angela Davis, 1974

12-10 Nacio Jan Brown, “High School Students”

12-11 The Turning Point, Abraham Ignacio Jr.

12-12 Nacio Jan Brown, “Demonstrators Beaten,” 1969

12-13 Napa Register, 1969 “Faculty Strike”

12-14 Mel Orpilla, Desegregated Neighborhood, Vallejo

12-l5 Alcatraz Occupation

12-l6 Alcatraz Proclamation

12-l7 “My Manong Dad, War Bride Mom, and Maverick Me,” Teresta Bautista

12-l8 Chicano Moratorium, l970

12-19 Blankfort, Anti War March by Servicemen, 1969

12-20 Blankfort, Ron Kovic, California Vets Office, l97l

12-21 Pam Brooks memoir, l970

12-22 Cady Cade, TWA stewardesses, l973

12-23 Sudie Pollock photo, women’s history awards

12-24 Sawyer Tannery, 1978

12-25 Longshoreman’s anti-Nixon demo, l973

12-26 Poster, Support Kentucky Miners

Chapter Thirteen

l980-2000 “Life is a Great and Mighty March”

13-1 Carithers strikers

13-2 Carithers strikers marching back into work

13-3 “Two Brothers: Two Filipino American Perspectives,” James Sobredo, 2004

13-4 “Ray Gunn, Geri DiGiornio

13-5 Nuclear Freeze demonstration, l983

13-6 “The Great Peace March,” Holly Near, 1983

13-7 S.F. march against apartheid, l985

13-8 “Saving the Bay” by Gulick, Kerr, McLaughlin, Berkeley, l988

13- 9 Luis Valdez memoir

13-10 Cesar Chavez “Farmworkers at Risk,” l993

13-11 Prop. 13, Neil Pierce, July 1998, Planning Report, Metropolitan Forum Project

13-12 “Causes of L.A. Riots,” testimony by Maxine Waters, Senate Banking Committee, 1992

13-13 The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles: A New Year’s Poem, l994, Amy Uyematsu

13-14 Excerpt from Janet Stickmon memoir, Crushing Soft Rubies, 2005

l3-15 Janet Stickmon

13-16 Judi Bari, Obituary by Holly Near, 1998

13-17 Mel Orpilla, 1995 Protest of picture bride story

13-18 “What Happens When a Manang Dies,” Jeannette Lazam

13-19 Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird memorial comments, 1999

13-20 Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird