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Caption: "Steamer EMPRESS OF INDIA at Vancouver dock, B.C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Empress of India, built by England's Naval Construction & Armaments Co. in 1890 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships company. The Empress of India could accommodate up to 700 passengers, and was also used to carry mail between Hong Kong and Great Britain. She was sold in 1914 and refitted as a hospital ship for Indian soldiers. She was sold a final time in 1923, for scrap in Bombay.
Date: 1908
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Caption: "Ramona's Marriage Place -- San Diego," c. 1915-1916. Automobile parked along adobe building with sign proclaiming "Ramona's Marriage Place," referring to the fictional character Ramona from Helen Hunt Jackson's novel of the same name. The building, known as Casa de Estudillo, was built in 1827 by José María Estudillo.
Date: 1915
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Correspondence from Jules Seitz to Charles F. Miller regarding opposition to resettlement of Japanese in Solano County, including statement of Board of Supervisors of Tulare County regarding aid to Japanese
Date: July 28, 1945
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Bulletin from E. Raymond Cato to All Members of the California Highway Patrol regarding updated policy for prohibited articles
Date: December 28, 1942
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Caption: "U. S. 10" Gun, Firing Position.," c. 1905. William McCarthy standing next to a 10" disappearing gun, raised to its firing position. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.
Date: 1905
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Second report by trustee, J. Nakano on behalf of Kiyoko, Masaaki, Toshiyuki, and Hideo Nakano regarding property in Sonoma Coutny, California; This report comes from incarceration camp
Date: Filed February 26, 1943
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No Caption: c. 1910. Grace McCarthy posing in a garden with an armful of flowers.
Date: 1910
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John Wieland's Extra Pale, California Bottling and Co.
Date: 1895
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Fort Ross Rancho or Muniz boundaries. Volume 2, page 152.
Date: 1844
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Caption: "Indian over 100 years old," c. 1905. Elderly man, possibly of Native American ethnicity, standing in front of a barn. Taken around 1905 in San Diego near the Old Mission, If William McCarthy's description is accurate, this person was born while California was under Spanish rule. Possibly of the Kumeyaay tribe, whose members had lived in the area long before the Spanish arrived, he may have lived and worked at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Mission San Diego) or at a nearby Indian village.
Date: 1905
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Bulletin to counties from the Department of Social Welfare regarding counties' responsibility to aid relocated Japanese
Date: April 1942
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Correspondence from Charles M. Wollenberg to Beulah Lewis regarding number of assistance cases in Los Angeles County
Date: April 6, 1945
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