Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Genre: photographs / Resource Type: still image / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection and OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason (center, left with white collar), her daughter Ellen Mason Owens (1st from right), and others behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Betye Saar and Alison Saar at their exhibition "Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar" at the UCLA Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, circa 1990

Description:: Alison Saar is an African American artist who seeks to clearly communicate her ideas and emotions through the power of form. Her sculptures have their own personal vocabulary that speaks in a direct language about history, race, and mythology. Her works tell the stories of the African American experience over time and space. She is the daughter of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Date:: [circa 1990]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gray, Todd, 1954-
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, circa 1922

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing in an air field wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, 1920-1926

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing on the wheel of an airplane, wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bert McDonald, attorney, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Studio portrait of Bert McDonald as a young man, wearing a suit.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Tivoli LA
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Banquet table set for an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, between 1944-1950

Description:: Banquet table at an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville with flowers, candles, coffee urns and two cakes. This is at their home at 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
Date:: [between 1944-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gilwee, Jim
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Ballinger Kemp at a tennis court, Los Angeles, 1916-1919

Description:: Ballinger Presley Kemp was a champion tennis player from Los Angeles.
Date:: [1916-1919)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Avalon Christian Church, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Exterior view of the Avalon Church (4272 S. Avalon).
Date:: May 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Angelita Williams, Los Angeles, 1915 (?)

Description:: Angelita Williams, a young, an African American woman wearing a hat and gloves, stands next to an early model automobile, with a dwelling in the background.
Date:: 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Altar of St. Matthias Episcopal Church at Christmas, Los Angeles, circa 1960-1963

Description:: Color photograph of an altar of St. Matthias Episcopal Church at Christmas time. The church was located at W. Washington Blvd. and Normandie Ave. until 1963.
Date:: [circa 1960-1963]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Altar at St.. Matthias Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, circa 1960-1963

Description:: Color photograph of the main altar of St. Matthias Episcopal Church. The church was located at W. Washington Blvd. and Normandie Ave. until 1963.
Date:: [circa 1960-1963]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

A. J. Roberts, Sons and Company mortuary building on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1922 or later

Description:: Exterior view of the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary, with a sign reading "Roberts Mortuary" located at 1415 Central Avenue.
Date:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

A. J. Roberts in front of the A. J. Roberts, Sons and Company mortuary building on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1922 or later

Description:: A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1960

Description:: View of delegates attending the African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: May 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1960

Description:: View of delegates attending the African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: May 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African American youth in a band, Los Angeles, undated

Description:: Group of seven children (11-15 years old) playing various musical instruments including saxophones, a piano, and a drum. More older children look in from a doorway. This is probably in the area of Central Avenue.
Date:: [undated]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African American women at the Church of the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Los Angeles, 1963

Description:: Ten African American women stand on the steps of the Episcopal Church of the Advent (4976 W. Adams Blvd.), greeting the minister, Reverend Lewis P. Bohler, as they leave.
Date:: January 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African Americans dancing on a stage with musicians, Los Angeles, 1940s-1950s

Description:: Since this image is in the Somerville file, the musicians and dancers might be performing music and dance of Jamaica.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

African American men picketing, Los Angeles, between 1939-1945

Description:: African American men holding picket signs on a street corner. Signs read "If good enough to fight together, why not to work together," "Jim Crow must Go!," "American youth wants Democracy [...]" One man holds a folded newspaper with partial headlines reading "[...]pper attacks [...] Lindenberg"
Date:: [between 1939-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jackson, Vera, 1911-1999
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Betye Saar and Alison Saar at their exhibition "Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar" at the UCLA Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, circa 1990

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, circa 1922

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, 1920-1926

Bert McDonald, attorney, Los Angeles, 1920s

Banquet table set for an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, between 1944-1950

Ballinger Kemp at a tennis court, Los Angeles, 1916-1919

Avalon Christian Church, Los Angeles, 1957

Angelita Williams, Los Angeles, 1915 (?)

Altar of St. Matthias Episcopal Church at Christmas, Los Angeles, circa 1960-1963

Altar at St.. Matthias Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, circa 1960-1963

A. J. Roberts, Sons and Company mortuary building on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1922 or later

A. J. Roberts in front of the A. J. Roberts, Sons and Company mortuary building on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1922 or later

African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1960

African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1960

African American youth in a band, Los Angeles, undated

African American women at the Church of the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Los Angeles, 1963

African Americans dancing on a stage with musicians, Los Angeles, 1940s-1950s

African American men picketing, Los Angeles, between 1939-1945

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