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

Description:: Ellen Mason Owens Huddleston was the daughter of Biddy Mason, early African American pioneer and Los Angeles landowner. She married Charles Owens, the son of Robert Owens, Sr., early African American pioneer, Los Angeles landowner and successful livery stable owner, in 1856.
Date:: [between 1860-1890]
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:: October 16, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio group portrait, probably of Emma Todd (mother of Emma P. Barrett Boyd), her daughters and an older female relative.
Date:: [1885-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sunbeam Art Gallery
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Loren Miller, Jr., was a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Date:: [November 16, 1957 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ellen Mason Owens Huddleston was the daughter of Biddy Mason, early African American pioneer and Los Angeles landowner. She married Charles Owens, the son of Robert Owens, Sr., early African American pioneer, Los Angeles landowner and successful livery stable owner, in 1856.
Date:: [between 1858-1868]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Paul Robeson (center) celebrates the 50th birthday of the California Eagle with Los Angeles Police officers, including Tom Bradley (right).
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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