Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Genre: Portrait photographs / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Edwin Lucius Jefferson was a 1931 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He was the first African American judge west of the Mississippi when he was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1941, and the first African American Justice for the California 2nd Appellate Court of Appeals. Jefferson was a civic leader, who in 1943 served on a committee to improve the housing situation for minorities in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville served on the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations from 1953 to 1966.
Date:: September 13, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, A. Ellis
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Oval wedding portrait, probably of Loren Miller, Jr. and his first wife Anne M. Risher Miller.
Date:: [November 16, 1957 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of Lloyd Dickey, superintendent of the Willowbrook School District, seated at his desk.
Date:: 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group wedding portrait of Loren Miller, Jr. (to the right of the bride) and his first wife (probably) Anne M. Risher Miller, with family members gathered around them. .
Date:: [November 16, 1957 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:: October 16, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Lorenzo Bowdoin (seated), his daughter, Frances Vaughn, and grandson, Reuben Bowdoin Vaughn.
Date:: [circa 1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Edward Ross Houston was married to Dorothy Isabelle Houston the father of Athenaise "Puffie" Houston Hill and Millie Houston Price. He was the locker room attendant at the Hillcrest Country Club at 10,000 Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles,
Date:: [circa 1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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