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African American family in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

Description:
African American family, one boy, two girls and the parents, standing in front of the porch of a house with a striped awning above them. They are dressed for a special occasion with the boy in a jacket and knickers suit, the girls in light-colored dresses and stockings with large bows in their hair, the mother in a light-colored blouse and long, silk skirt and the father in a light-colored three-piece suit.
Date:
[1910-1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
African American family in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

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

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

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

Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott family and others at the "tent house," Glendale, circa 1907

Description:
Lillie Garrott (former Lillie Dejarnette / De Jarnette), wife of Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott (probably, left), with her children Miriam Garrott (holding baseball bat), Alva Garrott (seated, left), and Robert Garrott (seated, right) in front of the temporary "tent house" with six other children. Three of the girls hold tennis racquets.
Date:
[circa 1907]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott family and others at the "tent house," Glendale, circa 1907

Family of Ralph Bunche, Los Angeles, 1919

Description:
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. [Wikipedia]
Date:
July 1919
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Family of Ralph Bunche, Los Angeles, 1919

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 (?)