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

Description:: Studio portrait of Dr. Vada Somerville wearing a fringed, embroidered shawl over her dress, standing in front of a velvet drapery panel.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: California Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of a young man wearing a suit with a bow tie, standing on an oriental rug in front of a painted landscape backdrop.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dando L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Miss Johnson (left) and Emma P. Barrett Boyd standing beside a pedestal with relief ornament and a trailing vine.
Date:: [1902-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sunbeam Art Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Jane Broyles is seated holding a baby on the front steps of the house of her daughter, Portia B. Griffith, at 5000 Wall St, surrounded by about 44 family members of all ages.
Date:: [circa 1961]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [circa 1922-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hartsook, Fred, 1876-1930
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Reverend Clayton D. Russell was an important religious and political leader in the Los Angeles African American community. He was the pastor of the People's Independent Church of Christ from 1936 to 1953. He founded the Church of Divine Guidance in 1953 and was the pastor until his death in 1981.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Pre dedication banquet to celebrate the dedication of Frederick Roberts Park, with Pearl Hinds Roberts, his wife (seated, 2nd from right). About 42 people are grouped around the table for a group portrait. The location might be the home of Frederick and Pearl Roberts.
Date:: May 20, 1957
Resource Type:: still image
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:: [1950s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Elmer Bartlett was a highly acclaimed choir director and organist. Churches where he worked in include the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. He received several awards in the course of his career including first prize for directing the Los Angeles AME's choir at a 1926 choir competition at the Hollywood Bowl. By 1940 he had moved to Elgin Illinois. He continued to direct choirs and play the organ for various A.M.E. churches.
Date:: [July 12, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Weaver LA
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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