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Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

751 items
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About this Collection

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.


Collection Overview

Date Created
1940s
Extent
photographs

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local identifier
Collection 2270
ARK
ark:/21198/zz002311rn
Opac url
https://catalog.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6776673
Finding Aid URL
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8qr51fr/
MANIFEST URL
IIIF Manifest

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Rights contact
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988

Notes

Description
Collection of approximately 800 digitized photographs and other items collected by Walter L. Gordon, Jr. and given to William C. Beverly, Jr., who donated the collection to UCLA. Collection includes photos given to Walter by his former boss, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, as well as other photos he collected. Photos largely depict African American social life and family life in 1940s Los Angeles and feature celebrities, athletes, politicians, lawyers, and other notable people of the era.

Physical Description

Extent
photographs

Keywords

Genre
Black-and-white photographs
color photographs
clippings (information artifacts)
Subjects
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Photographs.
Gordon, Walter L., 1908---Photographs.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--Photographs.
African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Photographs.
Names
Gordon, Walter L., Jr., 1908-2012
Subject geographic
Los Angeles (Calif.) $x History $y 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) $x Social life and customs.
Location
California--Los Angeles

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