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  • Petition to 1878-1879 Constitutional Convention for women’s suffrage

    Ahead of the second California Constitutional Convention held in Sacramento from September 28, 1878 to March 3, 1879, petitions were circulated around California in support of amending Article II of the 1849 constitution. The petitions included over 2,500 signatures and asserted that “no citizen of the State shall be disenfranchised on the account of sex.” The petition shown here from October 10, 1878 contains hundreds of signatures and measures over seven feet long. However, the many signatures indicating support for the amendment were not enough to sway the all-male delegation at the 1878-1879 Constitutional Convention. Several delegates expressed fears about the impact of enfranchising women as well as concerns that the inclusion of women’s suffrage in the new 1879 constitution would threaten its ratification. After several days of debate, the amendment did not move forward.

    Date: October 10, 1878

  • eichler_f3274_085

    Caption: "Kitchen Commissary & Dining Rooms." California School for the Deaf at Berkeley; design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built like this, 1932. Project for Department of Education.

    Date: 1930

  • Address by Governor Earl Warren of California

    Address by Earl Warren at the 35th Annual Governors' Conference in Columbus, Ohio; Discussion of release of Japanese from incarceration camps in regards to public safety

    Date: June 21, 1943

  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 012

    Caption: "California Coast Highway - Oxnard to Santa Monica, May 24, 1935."

    Date: 1935

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 289

    Caption: "State Capitol Building. Des Moines, Iowa. Sept. 26, 1934." Construction began on Iowa's State Capitol Building, designed by John C. Cochrane and Alfred H. Piquenard, in 1871, but was not completed until 1886. Mifflin E. Bell, an assistant to Piquenard, redesigned the central dome after Piquenard's death in 1876. Damage to the building's exterior over the years prompted a massive renovation project, begun in 1983 and completed in 2001.

    Date: 9/26/1934

  • "Send All Japs Back to Japan"

    Sticker reading "Send All Japs Back to Japan"

    Date: Undated

  • Preliminary Report of Investigation of Japanese Charges

    Report submitted by Harry T. Callahan on all individuals of Japanese descent employed by the state as of April 1, 1942

    Date: August 12, 1942

  • eichler_f3274_364a

    Caption: "Sign for California State Parks." Blueline of drawing by Alfred Eichler of sign for hacienda of Governor Pio Pico, California State Parks, after design by Colonel Wing, Chief Division of Parks. Includes handwritten note attached to drawing and additional annotations. Project for Department of Natural Resources - Beaches and Parks.

    Date: 1929

  • Memo on Personnel

    Office Memorandum from Margaret S. Watkins to Martha A. Chickering regarding staffing of the WCCA offices

    Date: April 10, 1942

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3535

    Wheata-Vita

    Date: 1899