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Some of My Favorites

The following is a collection of some of my favorite images on the Picture This website.

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A Californio ranch near Monterey. ca. 1849. Alfred Sully, artist. Watercolor on paper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Cover of San Francisco's anti-Chinese Wasp magazine that advocated the end of Chinese Immigration to the United States. May 7, 1881. Illustrator unknown. Newspaper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

Hard Pushing

I like political cartoons.

And having **multiple paragraphs**.

Untitled. 1909. Edward. H. Mitchell. Postcard of a color drawing. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Dorothy Bennett. More info »

Portola Festival

I didn't know they could make posters this colorful in the early 1900's!

Half Dome (5000 Feet) and Glacier Point (3200 Feet), Yosemite Valley. 1880. George Fisk. Photograph, albumen print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Founders Fund. More info »

Sitting Alone

This picture is epic.

Ocean Beach at Sunset

This is one I uploaded.

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco. 1933. Dorothea Lange. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor. More info »

Untitled. 1906. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. 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. More info »

Lobby card from the Hollywood film While Thousands Cheer. 1940. Maker unknown. Promotional piece for film. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of anonymous donor. More info »

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