Lorenzo Bowdoin receives an award from the Women's Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, 1962

Title: Lorenzo Bowdoin receives an award from the Women's Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, 1962
Alternative title: Lorenzo Bowdoin, NAACP leader
Date Created: November 11, 1962
Date: 1962-11-11
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Lorenzo Bowdoin is cited by Women's Sunday Morning Breakfast Club for his contributions to the community for the past 50 years at its "This is Your Life" program. He is seated at a table with a trophy and flowers, with family members standing behind him.
Text from newspaper caption: Family members: daughter Frances Vaughn, grandson Reuben Vaughn, and nephews Otis and George Bowdoin gather around "This Is Your Life principal." Los Angeles Sentinel, 15 Nov. 1962: A8.
Lorenzo Bowdoin was a Los Angeles businessman, civic leader and philanthropist. One of the first three black clerks hired by the Los Angeles Post Office in 1906, he worked there for 38 years and improved hiring and promotion policies for blacks. He was one of the organizers of Angelus Mortuary (1925) and was the treasurer for many years. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Haitian Coffee Co. He was active in many civic organizations including the Metropolitan YMCA.

Genre: Portrait photographs
Names: Vaughn, Reuben Bowdoin
Bowdoin, Frances Lillian, 1916-1996
Bowdoin, George
Bowdoin, Lorenzo, 1886-1972
Bowdoin, Otis, 1918-1989
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American philanthropists
African American civic leaders
Award presentations
African American businesspeople