Lorenzo Bowdoin with Frances Vaughn and Reuben Bowdoin Vaughn, Los Angeles, circa 1962

Title: Lorenzo Bowdoin with Frances Vaughn and Reuben Bowdoin Vaughn, Los Angeles, circa 1962
Alternative title: Lorenzo Bowdoin, NAACP leader
Date Created: [circa 1962]
Date: 1962
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Studio portrait of Lorenzo Bowdoin (seated), his daughter, Frances Vaughn, and grandson, Reuben Bowdoin Vaughn.
Lorenzo Bowdoin was a Los Angeles businessman, civic leader, philanthropist and NAACP leader. 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, Lorenzo, 1886-1972
Vaughn, Frances Lillian Bowdoin, 1916-1996
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American businesspeople