Group of well-dressed women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Item Overview

Title

Group of well-dressed women, 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

Sarah Griffin was the wife of dentist Tom Griffin.
Edythe Houston was the wife of Norman Houston, of the Golden State Insurance Company.
Olive Neal was the wife of the dentist Elvin Neal.
Ursula P. Murrell was a pharmacist for 14 years. She then received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at the University of Southern California. She also did post-graduate work at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. She was a special music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. She was awarded the Honorary PTA Life Membership, the Life Membership in the Los Angeles City Elementary School Music Association 24th Street Elementary School Award, and the Golden Apple at the 1971 Teacher Remembrance Day Award as Outstanding Teacher. She was also very active in civic organizations. Her mother, Loretta H. Dunn Pruitt, was the frost African American woman to graduate from college degree in Louisiana.
Edythe Houston was the wife of Norman O. Houston, of the Golden State Insurance Company.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Mrs. Damon Lee, Jr. (first from L), Ursula P. Murrell (2nd from L), Sarah Griffin (4th from L), Mrs. Tyler (8th from L), Edythe A. Houston (7th from R), Olive Neal (6th from R), Zepherine Brown (5th from R), Nancy Cunningham (2nd from R)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Names

Lee, Damon, Mrs.
Cunningham, Nancy
Griffin, Sarah, b. 1900 or 01
Neal, Olive, 1901-1980
Brown, Zepherine
Houston, Edythe A. (Edythe Adelaide), 1904-1995
Murrell, Ursula P. (Pruitt), 1905-1995

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Culture