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Office Memorandum from Bernice G. Copland to Margaret S. Watkins and Lois Craig regarding report on operations in Los Angeles County

Date: April 27, 1942

Notice from Frank J. Hennessy to All State and Local Police Authorities regarding prohibited articles to be confiscated from Japanese

Date: January 3, 1942

A Brief of Respondent is filed in the appellate court by the party who won in the previous trial and defends the lower court’s original decision. Ellen Van Valkenburg began an important legal battle for women’s enfranchisement in California on July 21, 1871, when she requested that Santa Cruz County Clerk Albert Brown enter her name in the Great Register of voters. After Brown (a willing accomplice in helping her bring the case to court) refused to register her, Van Valkenburg and her lawyer, Santa Cruz Judge Albert Hagan, began legal proceedings by requesting a writ of mandamus, a judicial remedy used to compel agencies to perform ministerial acts, such as registering voters. Van Valkenburg and Hagan argued her case by citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The new amendment, ratified 3 years earlier in 1868, defined all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. as citizens protected by civil rights. Van Valkenburg and Hagan asserted that American women were considered citizens under this amendment, and that citizenship automatically granted absolute rights, including the right to vote. The case first went to California’s Third District Court. Many of America’s most prominent suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were with Van Valkenburg in Santa Cruz when the lower court ruled against her on August 16, 1871. Van Valkenburg and Hagan swiftly appealed this decision through the Supreme Court of California. In the end, the Supreme Court of California upheld the lower court’s verdict under the reasoning that as a white American woman, Van Valkenburg already had citizenship and civil rights prior to the passage of the 14th amendment, and that the 14th amendment did not provide her with any additional political rights, such as the right to vote. While Van Valkenburg lost her case, and subsequent lawsuits failed to secure women's suffrage nationwide, the case stands as a critical early example of legal advocacy for women's political rights in California.

Date: October 2, 1871

S. F. Produce Exchange Call List

Date: 1884

Correspondence from Robert G. Sproul to Henry A. Wallace regarding Japanese college and university students who have been removed from school due to the evacuation

Date: May 1, 1942

Excerpt from minutes from meeting of Governor's State and County Coordinating Committee on Reemployment; Discussion of preliminary planning for employment at incarceration camps

Date: April 10, 1942; Date taken from first page of minutes

Office Memorandum from Margaret S. Watkins (by Kathryn M. Larmore) to Lois Craig regarding incarceration and denial of public assistance

Date: April 7, 1942

Caption: "Swift Current Lake - Glacier National Park, the Garden Wall and McCloud Mountain in the distance," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Angostura Bitters

Date: 1876

Caption: "Ancient Mission Bells, San Diego.," c. 1905. In this photograph, William McCarthy stands before “Ancient Mission Bells” at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego). Dated 1802, the bells were forged by order of the Spanish King. During the heyday of the missions, the bells were extremely important for signifying when it was time to eat, pray, work, or rest.

Date: 1905