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Caption: "Pioneer Monument Near Truckee." Tall monument with man, woman, and two children peering west. The Pioneer Monument was first dedicated on June 6, 1918 to commemorate those who emigrated to California in the mid 1800s. Today, the monument and surrounding area is known as Donner Memorial State Park. The park was established in memory of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of emigrants whose wagon train was caught in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-47. The Pioneer Monument's stone pedestal stands twenty-two feet high, the height of the snow that the party had to contend with. Of the eighty-seven people in the wagon train, only forty-eight survived to be rescued the following spring. Some of the survivors are said to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.

Date: 1927

Dr. Morse's Anti-Headache Wafers

Date: 1890

Queen Bee

Date: 1883

The Celebrated Indian Vegetable Pain Extractor

Date: 1868

20th Century Polish

Date: 1900

The Gavi California Ero-tine

Date: 1890

Atlas Bourbon

Date: 1894

History of the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans and the agencies involved

Date: Undated

White Blossom Lard

Date: 1889

Kingan's Own Cure, Kingan Bacon Bellies

Date: 1897