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Shades of LA Photo Collection
The same institution that holds these posters later recognized that its collection did not fully represent Los Angeles communities and worked to address that gap by collecting materials directly from community members.
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Treasure Island’s Nuclear History
After the fair, Treasure Island was supposed to become San Francisco’s airport. Instead, the Navy took control of it in 1941 and used it as a major military site during World War II. It was later used for radiological training, which left contamination that is still being cleaned up today.
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The Forgotten Occupation of Catalina Island
In August 1972, the Brown Berets camped on a bluff above Avalon for three weeks and called for Catalina’s undeveloped land to be used for housing. Their protest challenged the idea of Catalina as only a place for tourism and recreation.
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Charming Avalon and its bay--fair as the oldtime sun-god's retreat--Santa Catalina Island, off California. 5965 Interpositive Shows what the harbor actually looked like, decades before Wrigley development and the poster's Mediterranean aesthetic
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Sandstone Vessels from Santa Catalina Island Roughly 7,000 years of Tongva presence and craft on Catalina Island, while poster frames it as an empty scenic backdrop
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Annie Burke and Elsie Allen, Pomo Basket Weavers
The poster reduces Pomo basketry to the anonymous label “Pomo Indian Basket”, even though named Pomo weavers were actively working at the same time. One of them was Annie Burke, born in 1876, who asked her daughter Elsie Allen not to follow the Pomo custom of burying or burning a weaver’s baskets after her death. Those preserved baskets later became the foundation of the Elsie Allen Basket Collection.
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Yosemite: The First People
Discusses the 1851 Mariposa Battalion removal that preceded and allowed for the "empty wilderness" that the poster sells
