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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape, 1890s
Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape in the 1890.
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Russell Street House
The Tape home at 2123 Russell Street, Berkeley, circa 1895. Photograph by Mary Tape.
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Gertrude Tape and Friend
Gertrude Tape (left) and an unidentified girl on Clay Avenue, behind the Chinese Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, 1894.
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Gertrude Tape
Portrait of Gertrude Ella Tape in the early 1890s.
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“What a Chinese Girl Did”
An article profiling the “accomplishments” of the Tape Family featured in The Morning Call, circa 1892.
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Joseph Tape Hunting
Joseph Tape with his hunting rifle and bird dogs, circa 1880.
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Joseph Express Office
Photo of the Dupont and Sacramento streets (heart of the Chinese quarter) in San Francisco, circa 1895. Joseph Tape’s express office is in the second building on the left, with the horse and wagon in front.
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Reverend Augustus W. Loomis
Reverend Augustus W. Loomis was a Presbyterian missionary who sought to convert Chinese migrants in San Francisco to Christianity throughout the 1860s and 1870s. Prior to his work in California, Loomis worked at an Indian boarding school for Creek children. Indian boarding schools were abusive institutions that abducted Indigenous children from their homes and imprisoned them in residential complexes where students were forcibly “civilized” into white Christianity. Hundreds of Native children died in boarding schools, where they were subjected to attempted cultural genocide, unliveable conditions, and immense violence at the hands of their “caretakers.”
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Mary McGladery
Mary McGladery, assistant matron, Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society, who raised Mary Tape, 1869-1875.
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Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society
The Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society home for abandoned children (c. 1860), where Mary Tape was the only Chinese child resident.
