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Picture This offers three different ways to browse through pictures: by Timeline (when the pictures were created), by Theme (subjects the pictures have in common), or by Most Useful for Educators (based on user votes).

Browse By Timeline

Early California: pre-1769–1840s
37 pictures
Gold Rush: 1848–1860
35 pictures
Early Statehood: 1850 – 1880s
36 pictures
Progressive Era: 1890–1920s
66 pictures
Depression Era: 1930s
46 pictures
World War II Homefront Era: 1940s
53 pictures
Homogenization, Protests & Outright Rebellion: 1950s
11 pictures
Unforgettable Change: 1960s
76 pictures
Cultural Realignment & Economic Recession: 1970s
8 pictures
The Reagan Years: 1980s
19 pictures
1990s to Present
9 pictures

Browse By Theme

Children
11 pictures
Immigration
6 pictures
Labor
7 pictures
Political Cartoons / Posters
11 pictures
Protest
20 pictures
Transportation
28 pictures

Most Useful for Educators

Untitled
2 votes
Untitled
2 votes
Peace Picket John Seltz leaps in front of troop train
2 votes
Midcontinent
1 votes
Migrant Mother
1 votes
Californie Indien Dansant
1 votes
East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail
1 votes
Untitled
1 votes
America Setentrionale – Map of the North America
1 votes
Eliza Jane Steen-Johnson
1 votes
Americae Pars VIII: Franciscus Draco
1 votes
La Vonne Knapp, Moore shipyard worker, holding a rivet gun up to a caricature of Adolph Hitler
1 votes
Untitled (California mining scene)
1 votes
Man identified as a "North Central Sierra" California Indian
1 votes
San Francisco in 1850 (Niantic Hotel)
1 votes
Poster in opposition to the UC Regents vote to end affirmative action
1 votes
Shipyard, End of Shift at Yard 1
1 votes
Political poster supporting affirmative action
1 votes
Tule Boat
1 votes
Migrant Mother
1 votes
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