Subject: African American businesspeople / Genre: photographs / Resource Type: still image - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Assemblyman Frederick Madison Roberts, Pearl Hinds Roberts and their youngest daughter, Patricia, seated on a sofa looking at a document or publication.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James Rufus Portwig in his Navy uniform with Emily Brown Childress Portwig, probably during WWII. They are in a backyard in front of a barbeque.
Date:: [1940-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wesley Russell was an attorney in Los Angeles. He enlisted in December 1941.
Date:: [circa 1942]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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