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Miami Theatre, Miami, Huyler's sweet shop, counter

Description:: Transparent glass walls facing the sidewalk and the lobby integrate the shop with the activity going on outside. The display counter and its cabinets and drawers are sleek and cleanly designed, as are the curving lunch counter and its simple chairs. The traditional forms of the glass chandelier lend a touch of historicist elegance to the otherwise stark interior.
Date:: 1946-47
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Miami Theatre, Miami, crying room

Description:: The crying room, a feature of many theatres of the period, was a soundproof glass-walled viewing room for mothers with small children. Here the model demonstrates the audio device that transmitted sound to individual viewers. The acoustic tile on the walls began to be widely used in the 1940s and soon became ubiquitous.
Date:: 1946-47
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Miami Theatre, Miami, Huyler's sweet shop

Description:: Simple lines, recessed wall cabinets illuminated by indirect lighting, the butt-jointed glass display case and the recessed ceiling lighting were all new and fashionable design features of the Moderne of the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:: 1946-47
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Puente Theatre, Puente, ticket booth, opening night

Description:: Later renamed the "Star".
Date:: 1947-48
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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

Preliminary Study for the California Arboretum, Santa Anita, 1947

Description:: Structure labeled "exist. adobe building" is probably the Hugo Reid Adobe, which is the only area in the site that has been excavated by archaeologists. Hugo Reid, who was married to a Tongva woman, was the first recorded owner of the land. The site is now called the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden and is currently (2011) open daily during business hours for visitors, at a fee. Cornell was a member of the Southern California Horticultural Institute, which created the Arboretum, and was on the board for several years and acted as chairman of the board for a number of years.
Date:: March 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Plan for Palm Springs Northend Park, Palm Springs, 1946-1952?

Description:: Ruth Hardy Park is currently at this location (2011).
Date:: [1946-1952?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Preliminary plan for city park, Redondo Beach, 1947

Date:: July 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

City park, Redondo Beach, [1947?]

Description:: Preliminary plan for this park dated July 1947
Date:: [1947?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Plan for Palm Springs Northend Park, Palm Springs, 1946-1952?

Description:: Ruth Hardy Park is currently at this location (2011).
Date:: [1946-1952?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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

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

Attorney Martin McManus reading "lewd" book "Memoirs of Hecate County" by Edmund Wilson

Date:: July 15, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Korean American women's group members in traditional Korean clothes with Korean drummer Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1952

Date:: circa 1952
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

Women peeling potatoes in tent at camp for Jehovah's Witnesses gathering in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: August 1, 1947
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

John C. Fremont High School students hanging effigy from lamp post in protest over enrollment of black students in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Description:: Handwriting on negative states "Fremont high School Race Riot"
Date:: March 18, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three members of the California Tip Toppers club for tall men and women arriving for first national convention in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: July 18, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Jack Joseph teaching Sunday school to youngsters at Westchester Methodist Church and Jewish Congregation in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1947

Date:: 1947
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

Stage and crowd at Halloween Slick Chick beauty contest in Anaheim, Calif., 1947

Date:: November 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Model Tilli Dieterle making entrance under clock during California Fashion Show in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: 1947
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

Women's Christian Temperance Union lecturing on evils of liquor in bar in Pasadena, Calif., 1947

Date:: April 26, 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

Atom bomb drill at school in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1951

Date:: circa 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

John C. Fremont High School students walking out of classes in protest of enrollment of black students in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: March 18, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chris Willowbird and Iron Eyes Cody, in tribal dress, at funeral of composer Charles Wakefield Cadman

Date:: January 3, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fanchonettes, female dance troupe, backstage stage at their makeup tables in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1950

Date:: circa 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charles Caudle using puppets and props for lecture on the do's and don'ts during an atomic bomb attack in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1951

Date:: circa 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four American Indian girls playing with dolls and tea set at a tent city in Calif., circa 1951

Date:: circa 1951
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

Four contestants of the Halloween Slick Chick beauty contest in Anaheim, Calif., 1947

Date:: November 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women parishioners and children outside of Westchester Methodist Church and Jewish Congregation in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1947

Date:: circa 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Beverly Hills Chapter of Junior Hadassah members Judy Segel, Sylvia Reisler, Shirley Haines, Charlotte Klein, Beverly Hills, 1947

Date:: September 28, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Audience of women applying makeup at lecture by beautician Manka Rubenstein in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1950

Date:: circa 1950
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

Mayor Fletcher Bowron celebrates Cinco de Mayo, Los Angeles, 1952

Description:: Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron celebrates Cinco de Mayo with Consuela de Bonzo and Mexican American dancers on Olvera street. Photographed left to right are Velia Valle, Salvadas Dukhart, Mayor Bowron, and Consuelo de Bonzo.
Date:: ca. 1952
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

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

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

Gathering of women at the Wilfandel Club, 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

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