Sarah C. Barr, Katherine J. Boskins Barr, and Roscoe Conklin Simmons, circa 1910

Item Overview

Title

Sarah C. Barr, Katherine J. Boskins Barr, and Roscoe Conklin Simmons, circa 1910

Alternative title

Kathryn Barr, first Executive Secretary of Los Angeles Urban League

Date Created

[circa 1910]

Date

1910

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Kathryn J. Boskins Barr organized an employment agency in Los Angeles which later became the Los Angeles Urban League.
Written on back of photo: Dr. A. E. [Elmer Ellsworth] Barr came to Calif. in 1897 from Chicago. He was born in Matoon, Ill., Aug. 24, 1867. His marriage to Katherine J. Boskins took place in Chicago, Aug. 19, 1894. They had a son named Elmer. Mrs. S. C. Barr, the doctor's mother, lived in L. A. also.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Simmons, Roscoe Conklin
Los Angeles Urban League
Barr, Sarah C., 1845-1925
Barr, Kathryn J. Boskins, 1872-1931

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American civil rights workers