Subject: African American businesspeople / Genre: photographs / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:: [circa 1905-1915]
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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Description:: Ursula Pruitt Murrell received a BA and MA in education from USC and was a music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. A member of several civic, cultural and charitable organizations, she was known for her involvement in civic work.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ursula Pruitt Murrell received a BA and MA in education from USC and was a music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. A member of several civic, cultural and charitable organizations, she was known for her involvement in civic work.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: George T. Dunlap (right) with his son-in-law Truck Wilcox, standing in the yard of a house.
Date:: August 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: October 16, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fannie and James Lockett came to Duarte in 1908. In 1909 they built a house and started a general store.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Sir Roger Makins was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956.
Date:: April 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Sir Roger Makins was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956.
Date:: April 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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