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Cascades Park waterfall, Monterey Park

Description:

Cascades Park is also known as Heritage Falls Park; was developed in about 1929 by Peter N. Snyder as part of Midwick View Estates

Date:

[1922-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Anna May Wong

Description:

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Los Angeles born Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (right).

Date:

ca. 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Audience watching Native American Indians on stage at event for Santa Fe Railroad 100 million miles of diesel travel, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

Date:

circa 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Swimmers at Los Angeles' La Cienega Municipal Pool, circa 1945

Date:

circa 1945

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:

Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on. In the background are several meager homes and clotheslines full of laundry

Date:

[between 1925 and 1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

African American boy reading a Little Black Sambo book in a Los Angeles Drugstore, circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Smiling Irishman used car dealership in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1946

Date:

circa 1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl, Los Angeles

Description:

Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl.

Date:

[between 1925-1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman stands with four children in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:

A woman stands with four children between two meager homes in the Los Angeles slums.

Date:

[between 1925 and 1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Cathy Downs modeling evening gowns with unidentified woman, circa 1946

Date:

circa 1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:

Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the Los Angeles slums

Date:

[between 1925 and 1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Hiram Raney and Mrs. Edna Horton baking biscuits, Los Angeles

Description:

Mrs. Hiram Raney and Mrs. Edna Holton baking biscuits in an oven.

Date:

[between 1925-1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Billboard reading "They must Live…in Freedom! United Jewish Welfare Fund" with "KKK" painted over "Jewish" on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

Date:

circa 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

George Bailey talking with group of boys at All Nations Boys Club in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:

circa 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Josh White, singer and guitarist, circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Inez Geraldine Wray, aka Sweet and Sour Mickey, displaying her tattooed arms, circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese temple in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:

A woman visits a Chinese shrine in a Chinatown temple, Los Angeles.

Date:

ca. 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Susan B. Anthony Club members having picture taken in front of Freedom Train in Los Angeles, circa 1948

Date:

circa 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Prince Tha Tha Quha, Tom Youngplant and Chief Sunrise with Board of Supervisor Raymond V. Darby in headdress Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, prominent clubwoman, Los Angeles 1930s and 40s

Description:

Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, one time auditor for the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs and president of the Maecenas Club, posing in a rocking chair

Date:

[1930s and 1940s]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group portrait of four citizens who objected to a Japanese American student's enrollment in Pasadena Junior College

Date:

September 27, 1944

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles Judge Stanley Mosk conducting marriage for Hindu couple, circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Henry Trubner, Los Angeles County Art Museum curator of Oriental art viewing exhibit with Pauline Wong and Hung-Pin Kwan, circa 1947

Date:

circa 1947

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three models in long dresses in their dressing room preparing for a fashion show, Los Angeles

Description:

Three models in long dresses preparing for a fashion show in their dressing room.

Date:

[between 1925-1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pile of junk between two buildings in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:

Pile of junk, including broken chairs, wire, boards, and pails, between two buildings in the Los Angeles slums

Date:

[between 1925 and 1945?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American youths detained for questioning

Description:

Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained for questioning in a Los Angeles jail following a brawl.

Date:

ca. 1942

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American female gang

Description:

Photographed left to right are: Frances Silva, Josephine Gonzales, Juanita Gonzales, Lorena Encina, and D. Barrios.

Date:

ca. 1942

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cinco de Mayo celebration at Los Angeles City Hall

Description:

Preparations are ready for a Cinco de Mayo celebration on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall.

Date:

May 5, 1944

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese funeral in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:

The funeral in Los Angeles Chinatown of Lew Sing Kai.

Date:

ca. 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Costumes for a fiesta on Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:

Anita Aros (center) poses with other costumed actors as they prepare for a fiesta on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.

Date:

ca. 1948

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dancing the jitterbug

Description:

An African American couple dance the jitterbug in front of a crowd.

Date:

ca. 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese submit personal property to the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:

Japanese residents turn in their shortwave radios, guns, and cameras to the Los Angeles Police Department by the April 1, 1942 deadline.

Date:

ca. 1942

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Preparing an ancestral shrine in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:

Four women prepare an interior shrine in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Identifying names are illegibly handwritten on the negative.

Date:

ca. 1938

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Demonstrator protests illegal raids by the Immigration Department, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

In downtown Los Angeles, a picketing demonstrator protests illegal raids by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (referred to on her sign as the Immigration Department).

Date:

ca. 1940s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority gathering, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

L'Tanya models a white satin dress, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Formal affair with dancing, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Five women in winter clothing, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Five women in winter clothing (some with fur stoles). The woman on the far right is Ellen Cussman. Second from left is Helen Wright.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Phi Beta Sigma event, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

L'Tanya and another woman modeling swimsuits, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Bathing beauty contest at the Elks Lodge, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

African American women lined up wearing swimsuits and sashes in front of an audience at the Elks Lodge in Los Angeles. One sash says "Digby Hotel."

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Marva Louis in a crowd of African American sailors, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Marva Louis (center) among a group of African American sailors.

Date:

[1940s]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Elks Lodge (Golden West Lodge No. 86, BPOE) event, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Black tie event in Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Women posing by swimming pool at Mitchell Miles' house, Los Angeles, 1940s.

Description:

The women posing were former showgirls at the New York Cotton Club, who migrated out to Los Angeles. Taken at the home of Mitchell Miles, on W. 27th Street in Los Angeles.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Group of well-dressed women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Crowd at the bar, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Merriman, Ted

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

At an informal school for young women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Some of the women pictured taught at an informal school for young women run by Helen Walker which Mr. Gordon referred to as Walker's "School of Expression."

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Unidentified African American woman modeling, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Gathering of the "Top Gals", Los Angeles 1940s

Description:

L to R: Unidentified woman (possibly Mrs. Bryant?), Estelle Sherwood, Sarah Griffin, unidentified woman (possibly Mrs. Darby?), Dorothy Johnson, Leontyne King, and Zepherine Brown.

Date:

[1940s]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Group of Society Women, Los Angeles 1940s

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

African American business figures, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Three African American women models, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Phi Beta Sigma men, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Smith, Jesse, photographer

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Affair at Club Alabam, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Night out at Central Avenue's Jockey Club, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Gibbs Jockey Club Cafe was located at 4305 S. Central Avenue in Los Angeles.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Merriman, Ted

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Well-dressed group dining out, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Seated on left side of table, L to R: Mabel Miles (1st), Edythe Houston (2nd). Seated of right side of table, L to R: Norman O. Houston (1st), Mitchel Miles (2nd). Standing at the far end of the talbe: Floyd Snelson. Standing in the back: Eddie Atkinson (4th from L).

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Tibbs, Walter L. Gordon, Jr., James Garcia and Floyd Snelson at a fashion show, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Alpha Kappa Alpha formal event, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Formal event for women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Formal event for women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Group of popular young women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Group of five people in black tie, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Left to right: Walter Gordon, Hazel Anthony, William Henry "Studd" Greene, Martha Jefferson Louis, Bernard Jefferson.

Date:

1940s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Formally dressed women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Siminoff, Norman, 1915-1965

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Formal event for women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

L'Tanya and another swimsuit model, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Fashion show emceed by War Perkins, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Gathering attended by Earl "Red" Griffin, Al Jarvis, and others, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Drag contest hosted by Bill Hefflin at the Club Alabam, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Woods, Clyde, photographer

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Unidentified African American women posing on a wall, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Drag contest hosted by Bill Hefflin at the Club Alabam, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Woods, Clyde, photographer

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Gathering of formally dressed young women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

African American sorority women in an auditorium, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Griffin, Earl

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Party in a personal residence, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Group of politically-minded women, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity members and pledges, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Caterina Jarboro at a recital, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority gathering, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

A gatherine of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters in Los Angeles.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Unidentified African American woman at an art show with ceramic work by Wilmer James, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Garden party at the home of Cassie Harris in Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Party held at Cassie Harris' house on 109th Street. Ethel (Sissle) Gordon is standing between two men, wearing a light colored peasant-style blouse. Louise Brooks is second from the right. The other people in the photograph are unidentified.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. as Master of Ceremonies at a Cavalrette Social Club event, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. onstage as an emcee at an event sponsored by the Cavalette [i.e. Cavalrette] Social Club.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

African American women at an event for a women's organization, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. as master of ceremony at a Cavalrette Social Club event, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. onstage as an emcee at an event sponsored by the Cavalette [i.e. Cavalrette] Social Club.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Gathering at the Wilfandel Club in the West Adams district, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Elks Lodge (Golden West Lodge No. 86, BPOE) event, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Party hosted by Fannie Robinson, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Seated on the floor, far left is Fannie Robinson. Leontyne King is beside the couch in a light-colored dress, far right. Ann Robinson is seated on the floor, 2nd from the right. The other women in the photograph are unidentified.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Winning contestant in drag contest hosted by Bill Hefflin at the Club Alabam, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Drag ball hosted by Bill Hefflin at the Club Alabam, most likely on Halloween. The winner is in a grey striped two-piece suit.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Woods, Buck

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Ethel (Sissle) Gordon and Louise Beavers at a women's club event, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity gathering, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Master of ceremonies Walter L. Gordon, Jr. at Les Baronesses event, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Attorney Walter L. Gordon, Jr. stands to the right of an unidentified woman in the center of the photograph. Sue Jackson is standing 5th from the left. Event was sponsored by the social club Les Baronesses.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Unidentified African American dancers, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Party at the home of Hugh Bell, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

African American sorority women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Merriman, Ted

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Formal affair in Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Members of an African American lodge, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

Unidentified African American women and one man at a lodge event, in front of a chorus.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Gathering attended by Earl "Red" Griffin, Freddy Clark, and others, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Group of well-dressed, well-known women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

L to R, first row: Lil Hammond, Regina Moore, Louise Beavers, Dorothy Mundy (with mole on face), unidentified woman (in black dress). Leontyne King (wearing printed dress, behind Dorothy Mundy). L to R, second row: an unidentified woman, Hazel Washington, Cassie Harris (wearing light-colored hat), Mildred Reed (with dark hair piece), and Bea (Beatrice) DeVaughan. L to R, back row: Gwendolyn Russell and an unidentified woman.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Merriman, Ted

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

African American business and legal figures, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Walter L. Gordon, Jr., out with a group, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Matthews Photographic & News Service

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Drag contest hosted by Bill Hefflin at the Club Alabam, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Date:

[1940s?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Woods, Clyde, photographer

Collection:

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection