Cassie and Paul Harris with their daughter Paula, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Cassie and Paul Harris with their daughter Paula, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Date
- 1940/1949
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
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Paul Harris was a cook on the railroad and in Los Angeles' restaurants.
Cassie Harris came to Los Angeles from Chicago, and eventually worked at the Dunbar Hotel. She was socially active, and a charter member of the organization 13 Aides, a group of prominent women who devoted their time to organizing programs to support the underprivileged. She was married to Paul Harris, a cook. - Description
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All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Paul Harris (L) with his wife, Cassie, and infant daughter, Paula, with an unidentified mand and woman.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
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Harris, Paul, cook
Harris, Paula
Harris, Cassie, b. 1907 or 08 - Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Lifestyle
People - African American cooks--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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Collection 1867 Box 4 Folder 1
094
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0094 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025p444
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted