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Pearl Hinds (Roberts) in her sixth grade class portrait at Durant Grammar School, Oakland, circa 1904

Description:
Pearl W. Hinds Roberts was the daughter of Lucy and Wiley Hinds, owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in California. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the Electoral College in 1952. She was married to Frederick M. Roberts, the first black Assemblyman elected to state office west of the Mississippi.
Date:
[circa 1904]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Weitz, Hugo, b. 1849
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Pearl Hinds (Roberts) in her sixth grade class portrait at Durant Grammar School, Oakland, circa 1904

Leon F. Marsh, Sr., at a dinner honoring him for 50 years of Lodge work, Oakland, 1967

Description:
Dinner honoring Leon F. Marsh, Sr. (seated) for fifty years of Lodge work. He is shown with his wife, Vivian Osborne Marsh (seated), and his grandchildren from his first marriage to Viola Marsh: Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Frederick Marsh (grandson and wife, on the left), and Dwight Colbert and Leslie Marsh Colbert (granddaughter, on the right).
Date:
October 24, 1967
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Leon F. Marsh, Sr., at a dinner honoring him for 50 years of Lodge work, Oakland, 1967

Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)

Description:
Gathering of Garrott and DeJarnette (or De Jarnette) families. Standing, back row: Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott (?): center; second row, seated, from left: 1) Helen Duncan Garrott, 2) Willa Garrott, 3) Fannie James (wife of James Garrott, Sr.), 6) Mable Dejarnette Keenan, 7) Alice Dejarnette Hooper.
Date:
[1940s (?)]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)

Dora Johnson Watson McDonald, mother of Vada Somerville, 1890-1910

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1890-1910]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dora Johnson Watson McDonald, mother of Vada Somerville, 1890-1910

Descendants of America Waldo Bogle and Richard A. Bogle, Oregon or Washington, 1940s-1950s

Description:
America Waldo Bogle was the daughter of a slave mother and probably one of the Waldo brothers (Missouri businessmen and slave owners who moved to the Oregon Territory). She married Jamaican immigrant Richard Bogle in 1863. He opened a barbershop in Walla Walla, owned a ranch or farm, and was one of the founders of the Walla Walla Building and Loan Association. Five of their eight children lived into adulthood. Three of the sons became barbers in Portland.
Date:
[1940-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Descendants of America Waldo Bogle and Richard A. Bogle, Oregon or Washington, 1940s-1950s

Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) family, Montgomery, 1894

Description:
Studio portrait of the Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) family; L to R, top row: Leslie Dejarnette Wheeler, Lillie Dejarnette Garrott, Alice Dejarnette Hooper, Katie Dejarnette Scott and Hattie Dejarnette Hamilton; middle row: Mabel Dejarnette Kennan, Robert Dejarnette (father), Stanley Dejarnette, Herbert Dejarnette and California Dejarnette (mother); front row: Robert Dejarnette and Gladys Dejarnette (baby).
Date:
1894
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) family, Montgomery, 1894