Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Lionel Hampton, and Charles Drew at the Plantation Club, Los Angeles, late 1940s

Title: Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Lionel Hampton, and Charles Drew at the Plantation Club, Los Angeles, late 1940s
Date Created: [late 1940s?]
Date: 1945/1950
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Summary: Lionel Hampton was an African American jazz musician and bandleader.
Charles Drew was an African American physician and surgeon who performed valuable medical research that improved the practice of blood transfusions and the storage of blood, allowing for the development of large-scale blood banks during World War II.
Walter L. Gordon, Jr. was an African American attorney in Los Angeles.
Description: Taken at Fatty Arbuckle's Plantation Club, in the 11700 block of Washington Blvd. in Culver City.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Left to right: Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Drew.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Names: Drew, Charles, 1904-1950
Gordon, Walter L., Jr., 1908-2012
Hampton, Lionel
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 33.9997709
Latitude: -118.4179541
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lifestyle
People; African American jazz musicians
Surgeons--United States
Jazz musicians--United States
African American lawyers--California--Los Angeles
African American surgeons

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: Collection 1867 Box 4 Folder 2
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0572
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025pnx8
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