A Trip Back In Time
US History Field Trip 2015
The Mission Inn
The Mission Inn
The Mission Inn is very similar to some of the 21 Spanish Missions located throughout California. It is also a National Historic Landmark and one of the prestigious Historic Hotels of America.
Booker T. Washington Bust
In 1881 Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, it focused on teaching agricultural skills to African Americans. While Washington was more of a pragmatist regarding the problems the African American race was facing at the time, W.E.B. DuBois was more of a utopian socialist; this difference probably stems from the differences in their schooling.
Spanish Cannons
Frank Miller Statue
In my opinion, the government of America was correct in making the Mission Inn a historical landmark due to its age and the mass of historical artifacts and tributes located there.
Taft Chair!
The Progressive Era was a response to laissez-faire economics. It led to reforms such as the commission plan, direct primary, direct election of senators, the 19th Amendment, child labor laws, health and safety codes, and the 18th and 21st Amendments (Prohibition).
Teddy Roosevelt
In my opinion, Teddy Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment was the conservation of wildlife. Conserving our environment is more vital now than ever before, due to global climate change and pollution. Who knows where we'd be concerning our ecosystems if we hadn't started with his national parks?
Nanking Bell
International Rotunda
The US finally entered WWI because of a culmination of our business links with the Allies, the sinking of Lusitania (a passenger ship with 128 Americans), the Zimmerman Telegram, and Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare.
Chinese Pavilion
Most immigrants from China were processed on the West Coast at Angel Island. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed because it was believed that the massive influx of Chinese immigrants would disrupt cities.
Raincross Bell
The Raincross Symbol is also seen throughout the area, just like in the example below
And this ends the trip to the Mission Inn
Riverside Art Museum
Surrealism
Surrealism was an art movement of the 20th century that focused on avant-garde images bursting with creativity, often by juxtaposing multiple unlike things. The above picture is surrealism because of it's comparisons; pop art (comic book style) characters interacting on a background of mac'n'chesse and an space shuttle taking off.
Dada
Cubism
5 consumer that became available in the 1920's included Band-aids, PEZ candy, bubble gum, self-winding watch, and car radios.
Fox Theater
Fox Theater
3 major differences between movie experiences today and in the 1920's are color pictures, surround sound, and actual spoken dialogue between characters (not like silent films).
And so ends our field trip to the Mission Inn, Riverside Art Museum, and Fox Theater. Hope you enjoyed!