Subject: Berkeley (Calif.) / Names: Marsh, Vivian Osborne, 1897-1986 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Major Vivian Osborne Marsh and Lieutenant Lottie Rucker in uniform, when they worked for the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corp of America during WWII, in Berkeley. They are standing in front of a car, with a building behind them.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Vivian Osborne Marsh was born in Houston, Texas, and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley campus’ Kappa Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She went on to found several other chapters. Two major projects that she organized were the Traveling Library, which provided books to rural portions of Georgia, and Teen Lift, which provided opportunities for underprivileged teenagers to visit events such as symphonies and operas. She was involved in many civic organizations. On February 21, 1981, the mayor of Berkeley honored her contributions by declaring it to be Vivian Osborne Marsh Day.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio group portrait of the members of the Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta posed in front of a painted landscape backdrop: (front row, from left) Marie Lenox, Angelista Wrenn Grigsby, Vivian Osborne Marsh, Louise Thompson Patterson, Talma Brooks, (back row, from left) Tarea Hall Pittman, Gladys Brown, Amelda Taylor .
Date:: February 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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