Betty Clark, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Betty Clark, 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
- Betty Clark (née Betty Whitfield Wilson), was the wife of Horace Clark . Mrs. Clark, a former fashion designer, had been married to a police officer Arthur Wilson. She divorced Wilson, and later married Horace P. Clark, Sr., proprietor of the Clark Hotel. After his death, she became the full-time manager of the hotel. Betty was also the sister of Mal (Malvin) Whitfield, Olympic track medalist and member of the Tuskegee Airmen who also spent 47 years in Africa training athletes.
- Description
- All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
- Clark, Betty Whitfield Wilson, 1912 or 13-1998
- Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
- African American women--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
792
Collection 1867 Box 5 Folder 2
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0792 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025px3q
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted