Print depicts Denis Kearney, a leader of the Workingmen's Party of California and an Irish immigrant active in the late 19th century who was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants, behind bars in the San Francisco House of Correction, where Kearney was detained; a group of stereotypically drawn ethnically Chinese men mock Kearney in his cell holding various objects representing their employment, seafood, including a fish labeled "Black Friday" (after the stock market catastrophe that took place on September 24, 1869 due to gold speculation panic and initiated a state-wide depression in the 1870s), laundry, and cigars; baskets filled with fish on floor; "House of Correction, 181" on sign above prison cell door
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Other states of print in color.
Publisher:
Publ. by I.N. Choynski, antiquarian
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Name):
Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907 and Workingmen's Party of California
Subject (Topic):
Chinese Americans, History, Labor policy, and Emigration and immigration
Sixteen albumen prints depicting a variety of locations and people in Southern California and Arizona. There are views of six missions, one of them identified as San Miguel, and three others probably the California missions San Buenaventura, San Luis Rey, and Santa Inés. Three views are of the Southern Pacific Railroad, including the Tehachapi Loop and the San Fernando tunnel; three more views are of buildings and a river landscape in Yuma, Arizona. Also depicted are Chinese women in San Francisco; a vineyard and winery in Pasadena; Indian huts at Sunny Slope, San Gabriel, California; and a Mexican family in Santa Barbara, California
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, western photographer., Copy prints available., and Manuscript captions on verso of four photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Tehachapi Pass, Yuma (Ariz.), San Francisco, Pasadena (Calif.), and San Gabriel (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel, Calif.), San Buenaventura Mission, San Luis Rey Mission (Calif.), Santa Inés Mission (Solvang, Calif.), and Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Railroads, Chinese Americans, and Viticulture
A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
Description:
Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December., Captions in English., Captions in the negative., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger., and Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
Subject (Geographic):
California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
