California Fashion

Fashion and the clothes people wear is an important aspect to history. Examining what people wore during different time periods can tell you a lot about the individual, the lives that they lead and the times they live in

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Eliza Jane Steen-Johnson. 1852. Unknown photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Barbara Smith. More info »

Indian Dance at Mission San Jose. Date unknown. unknown artist. Original drawing, etched on copper. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Reproduced courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. More info »

Feathers and Fibers

California Indians used natural materials to create elaborate regalia for ceremonial dances

Californians Catching Wild Horses with Riata. Date unknown. Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl. Oil paint on canvas. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, Kahn Collection. More info »

Clothes of the Vaquero

Californio cowboys (vaqueros) needed tough clothing for hard outdoor work

Norton I. ca. 1875. Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco. Photoprint. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. H. H. Thiel. More info »

Untitled. ca. 1910. C.C. Pierce and Company. Photograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

To-Tole (The Star). 1894. Grace Carpenter Hudson, artist. Oil paint on canvas. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. Leon Bocqueraz. More info »

Migrant Mother. March 1936. Dorothea Lange. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor. More info »

Emmy Lou Packard talking to an unknown man at the Richmond shipyards. ca 1941–1945. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Emmy Lou Packard. More info »

Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, in front of a poster of Huey Newton. ca. 1970. Gordon Parks, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. More info »

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