“You came out to California, put on your pants, and took your lunch pail to a man’s job. This was the beginning of women’s feeling…
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Kathy Lo is Reference Services Librarian at Santa Monica Public Library and oversees the Library's Image Archives.
San Francisco Call, 29 December 1901, pg. 4 California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, http://cdnc.ucr.edu. Much of…
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Inspiration comes to Malvina Reynolds as she drives through a Daly City housing development in 1962. Her song, “Little Boxes,” a satire on conformity, becomes…
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On March 18, 1947, a basketball game tips off at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Corona. It has all the makings of any high stakes game.…
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After California’s male voters decisively defeat a women’s voting rights ballot measure in 1896, suffragists display plenty of public bravado. But it’s all for show. …
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On February 19, 1847, the First Relief rescue team helps Meriam “Mary” Murphy and about 20 other survivors of the Donner Party down from the…
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It is late summer 1839, and John Sutter makes his first journey up the Sacramento River to establish a fortified colony that will be the…
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Emily Pitts Stevens occupies a hallowed position in the pantheon of early suffrage advocates in California. As a 25-year-old teacher of night classes for working women…
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When President James K. Polk receives news that his emissary has signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, it’s doubtful he imagines…
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