Faces of California

Indian of California. ca. 1816. Louis Choris, artist. Watercolor on paper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Portrait of Sir Francis Drake. ca. 1720. Robert White, artist. Work on paper, print engraving. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Native American young person. ca. 1851. Issac W. Baker, photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Untitled (Portrait of a Chinese Man). ca. 1851. Isaac W. Baker, photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Untitled (Portrait of a Spanish Woman). ca. 1856. Photographer unknown. Ambrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Dr. Stanley B. Burns. More info »

Portrait of Eliza Jane Steen Johnson. 1858. Charles Christian Nahl, artist. Oil paint on canvas. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Dr. Gerald H. Gray. More info »

Untitled. ca. 1890. Edward Kemp, photographer. Lantern slide. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Bo Peep Chapter, Children’s Home Society. More info »

To-Tole (The Star). 1894. Grace Carpenter Hudson, artist. Oil paint on canvas. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. Leon Bocqueraz. More info »

Ishi, last of the Southern Yahi tribe of California, poses for a portrait taken by a photographer for the University of California Museum of Anthropology. ca. 1911–1916. Photographer unknown. Postcard published by the University of California Museum of Anthropology. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Migrant Mother. March 1936. Dorothea Lange. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor. More info »

Mario Savio as he arrived on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Savio is shown speaking to another student in front of Sproul Hall. December 4, 1964. Tommy McDonough, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group. More info »

[Huey Newton] "The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately--". 1968. Unknown photographer. Poster. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, All of Us or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family. More info »