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

Description:: Group portrait of 25 members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, with Dr. Vada Somerville (seated, 4th from left), and possibly Florence Cole-Talbert (seated 4th from right).
Date:: [1930s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Walter T. Cleghorn was the Vicar of St. Phillips Church in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1910-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Cora Leilani (Lani) Flood, a young African American woman wearing a white blouse.
Date:: [1915-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dorothy Vena-Johnson founded the League of Allied Artists in 1939 with Juanita Miller. She was an organizer for the 12 Big Sisters Club in Los Angeles. She was also an educator, and poet. She was married to attorney Ivan Johnson III.
Date:: [between 1930-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: 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:: Church congregation group portrait with Gertrude Bartlett (seated, center) and with six other African American women.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:: [1930-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Emily Brown Childress Portwig was a Los Angeles pharmacist and civic leader. She married Anderson V. Childress in 1909. She was widowed by 1930. She was married to James Rufus Portwig in 1933.
Date:: [1930s-1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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