Hugh MacBeth and Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Hugh MacBeth and Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, 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
- Hugh MacBeth was a Harvard graduate who became part of the first generation of African American lawyers in Los Angeles. With Willis O. Tyler, McBeth helped to organize the Barristers Club as an alternative to the State Bar, which at the time excluded African Americans, Jews, and other ethnic groups.
- Description
-
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
MacBeth is the portly gentleman at the far left, and Biscailuz is seated at the desk. The other two individuals in the photograph are unidentified.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
-
Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969
MacBeth, Hugh, d. 1956. - Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
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Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles County
African American lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
740
Collection 1867 Box 5 Folder 2
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0740 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025pvcw
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted