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Description:: The airport located at 135th and Western Avenue was called the Western Avenue Airport from 1936 to 1939.
Date:: [1936-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Seated at table, left to right: Mitchell Miles, Mabel Miles, Dr. William A. Goodloe and Juanita Goodloe, and an unidentified man. Standing in rear, left to right: Horace Clark, Albert (Al) Maddox, William Nickerson, Clarence Muse, and an unidentified man (in waiter's costume).
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Exterior view of the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary, with a sign reading "Roberts Mortuary" located at 1415 Central Avenue.
Date:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Check made out to the Spring Valley Water Works for the amount of Twenty eight dollars and 35 cents by Mary Ellen Pleasant.
Date:: 1886
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Banquet table at an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville with flowers, candles, coffee urns and two cakes. This is at their home at 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
Date:: [between 1944-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gilwee, Jim
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Robert James Boyd was born in North Carolina. He married Emma P. Barrett in Los Angeles and in 1910 they lived at 1242 El Molino (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.) in Los Angeles, next to 1244 El Molino, where Emma had lived with her family before she was married from as early as 1900. By 1917, he is reported as working in a barbershop in Riverside city directories from 1917 to 1947. According to Miriam Matthews, he owned the barbershop. Robert and Emma had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward.
Date:: [1902-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: "Reb" Spikes (standing, 5th from left) with 8 members of his Majors and Minors Orchestra.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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