Poster shows image of a skeleton wearing a hat with United Farm Workers iconography, a shirt with a large green circle with a smaller red circle inside, and pants. The skeleton appears to be hanging up a poster with information about a parade. The interior poster includes five panels, four with information, and one with images of skulls and bones. Title information is above. Around the information is a border of bones. "RCAF" in lower center of poster
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +168: Variant 1., BEIN WA Prints +439: Variant 2., At least two variants exist. Variant 1 has background of "Dia de los muertos" fully in orange, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in orange on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in red on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in red. Variant 2 has background of "Dia de los muertos" half in red and half in yellow, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in red on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in yellow on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in yellow., "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m.", "From Hiram Johnson to St. Mary Cemetery.", "Respeto a la raza!", "1st annual procession, for more info: 442-7651.", "Boycott CocaCola.", "¡Boycott Gallo!", "¡Para la gloria de mi raza!", "The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) is a Sacramento, California-based art collective, founded in 1970 by José Montoya and Esteban Villa. It was one of the 'most important collective artist groups' in the Chicano art movement in California during the 1970s and the 1980s and continues to be influential into the 21st century.", and Text in English and Spanish.
Publisher:
RCAF
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sacramento, and Sacramento.
Subject (Topic):
All Souls' Day, Mexican Americans, Social life and customs, Politics and government, Parades, All Souls' Day in art, and Serigraphy
The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works, United States--West (U.S.), and Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works, United States--West (U.S.), and Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works, United States--West (U.S.), and Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and United States--West (U.S.)
A group of civilians (mostly men) look across an open space to where two barely discernible individuals have been hanged from the roof of a row of buildings
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed by F. Kuhl
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Casey, James P., Cora, Charles, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
