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Image withheld due to copyright considerations. For more information, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246. Caption: "A movie dog team -- Truckee." This postcard shows a sled dog team pulling unidentified occupants in snow.

Date: 1927

Correspondence from Clarence Gillet to William Smith regarding resettlement housing shortage and Winona Housing Project; Referenced in Correspondence on Resettlement Assistance (F3729_11_018a-F3729_11_018f)

Date: May 15, 1946

Hand-drawn sketch map of Escarpin, or Las Salinas or El Tucho boundaries. Volume 1, page 26.

Date: 1835

Summary of communications with Miss Billings regarding dental care in Santa Clara County

Date: March 25-28, 1946

Sainsevain's Native California Wine Bitters

Date: 1863

Correspondence from Charles F. Miller to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding transportation expenses for evacuees needing hospital care

Date: June 14, 1945

Correspondence from Mike Masaoka to Martha A. Chickering; Attachments: A Resolution (FF3729_56_005c), The Japanese American Creed (F3729_56_005d), A Declaration of Policy by the Japanese American Citizens League (F3729_56_005e); see also Response to Correspondence from JACL (F3729_56_004)

Date: December 31, 1941

Correspondence from Martha A. Chickering to County Boards of Supervisors, County Welfare Departments and County Auditors regarding new policies on aid to needy blind and children

Date: December 22, 1941

G. A. R., Grand Army Republic

Date: 1886

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