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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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Snow Plow at Cisco
Winter construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains, c. 1867-1868. Avalanches and other accidents were some of the threats to workers enduring deadly blizzards and long winters.
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Chinese Workers
It took more than two years of constant, grueling, and often deadly work to excavate and lay tracks. This photo was taken approximately 80 miles from Sacramento, CA, c. 1866-1869.
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Central Pacific Railroad Worker
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) relied heavily on Chinese immigrant labor to build the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The CPRR employed 12,000 Chinese workers by 1867.
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Anti-Chinese Cartoon
An 1869 political cartoon in Harper’s Weekly by Thomas Nash, titled “Pacific Chivalry,” illustrates anti-Chinese sentiment among white miners in California.
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Tuolumne Mines
Sketch of Chinese miners during the California Gold Rush, Tuolumne County, Southern Mines, California, 1858.
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Chinese Emigration
Chinese emigration to America: sketch on board the steamship Alaska, bound for San Francisco.
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Miners at Sluice Box
White and Chinese miners at a sluice box in Auburn Ravine, California, 1852. By 1860, Chinese immigrants made up twenty percent of the mining population in California.
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Anti-Asian Violence Rally
Two children rally against anti-Asian violence in Houston, March 2021. Asian Americans experienced heightened levels of racism and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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United China Relief
An American poster from 1942 advocating for foreign aid to China. China was a key ally of the United States against Japan during World War II.
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The Street of the Gamblers
The Street of the Gamblers (Ross Alley) reveals street life in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1898. Chinatowns became important places for Chinese immigrants to live, find work, and form communities.
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Tarred and Feathered
A Boston mob forcibly pours tea into the mouth of a Loyalist they have tarred and feathered. On the left, revolutionaries pour British tea into the harbor in response to what they viewed as oppressive taxes.
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The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party saw Americans throwing the cargoes of British merchant ships into Boston Harbor, 1773.
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Canton Harbor
Canton Harbor and factories (with foreign flags, 1805) was a port on the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou that became China’s main trading hub with the West.
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Typhoon Mawar Mutual Aid Benefit Concert Flyer
This Mutual Aid Benefit Concert flyer promotes a fundraiser for those affected by Super Typhoon Mawar in Guåhan (Guam) and Luta (Rota). The 2023 fundraiser was hosted by the Sons and Daughters of Guam Club and Kutturan CHamoru Foundation of Long Beach.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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CHamoru Language Learning
In this clip, members of the first Prugråman Sinipok CHamorun Sanlagu (PSCH) cohort in Guåhan (Guam) from 2022 share their motivations for immersing themselves on a CHamoru language learning journey.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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Guam Delegates at the United Nations
This image shows several members of the 16 CHamoru delegates that testified at the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly in 2017.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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Decolonize: A People’s Quest for Self-Determination
The documentary Decolonize: A People’s Quest for Self-determination, shows CHamoru delegates testifying at the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly in 2017. This clip features state-side based CHamoru Dr. Tiara Na’puti discussing the importance of testifying.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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Robert Underwood
In 1982, CHamoru Dr. Robert Underwood traveled to the UN to speak out on CHamoru self-determination to put public pressure on the US and the UN to further support decolonization efforts on Guåhan (Guam). Dr. Underwood served as the Guåhan Delegate to the US Congress from 1993-2003.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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Flyer for Cecilia Cruz Bamba
An election flyer for Cecilia Cruz Bamba, c. 1978.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
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Cecilia Bamba
Cecilia Bamba was a strong advocate for Land Claims and War Reparations for CHamoru families. In 1983, she became the first CHamoru woman to testify before the US Congress.
Featured in:
CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities, Module 5
