Exhibit: California over Time

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

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

Grand Patent India-Rubber Air Line Railway to California. ca. 1849. Nathaniel Currier, artist. Hand-colored lithograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Founders Fund. More info »

Grand Patent India-Rubber Air Line Railway to California. ca. 1849. Nathaniel Currier, artist. Hand-colored lithograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Founders Fund

Lavage par la methode hydralique. 1862. J. Gauchard and G. Chassevent, artists. Steel engraving. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Donors Acquisition Fund. More info »

Lavage par la methode hydralique. 1862. J. Gauchard and G. Chassevent, artists. Steel engraving. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Donors Acquisition Fund.

San Francisco in 1850 (Niantic Hotel). 1939. Unknown artist. Work on paper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Toby (the Squaw Who Warned General Canby of His Impending Fate), and Four Old Modoc Squaws. 1873. Eadweard Muybridge, photographer. One frame of albumen stereo card. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Toby (the Squaw Who Warned General Canby of His Impending Fate), and Four Old Modoc Squaws. 1873. Eadweard Muybridge, photographer. One frame of albumen stereo card. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.

Fort Point, San Francisco. Date unknown. Unknown photographer. Photograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. M. E. Schlichtmann. More info »

Fort Point, San Francisco. Date unknown. Unknown photographer. Photograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. M. E. Schlichtmann.

East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail. 1869. Andrew J. Russell, photographer. Imperial collodion glass plate negative. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. ACCN # H69.459.2030. 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 »

Chinese dockworkers on San Francisco's waterfront loading supplies aboard a salmon fishing vessel headed to Alaska. April 12, 1906. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print. Collection of San Francisco Maritime Museum. More info »