Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Alternative title
- Garrott family, 1950s
- Date Created
- [1940s]
- Date
- 1940/1950
- Collection
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Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Dr. Garrott earned degrees in Pharmacy and Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D. C. before bringing his family to Los Angeles in 1901, becoming this city's first Negro dentist. After his first wife, Lillie Garrott, died in 1916, Dr. Garrott married Alice Watkins, who became a dentist.
Studio portrait of Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- Portrait photographs
- Names
- Garrott, Alva C. (Alva Curtis), 1866-1952
- Subject Geographic
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- African American dentists
Find This Item
- Local Identifier
- uclalsc_1889_b09_f04_007.tif
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1d80w1k
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- unknown
- Rights contact
- spec-coll@library.ucla.edu