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

Description:: The current Woodrow Wilson High School campus and buildings were designed by the renowned African American architect Paul R. Williams. It was an engineering challenge to excavate over one million cubic yards of earth to re-grade the hilltop and to use 3,500 tons of structural steel for the main buildings. The new Wilson High was the first LAUSD school to implement multi-floored buildings equipped with elevators and escalators to accommodate students with disabilities.
Date:: [1968-1969]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: [circa 1905-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Melonie Blocker was an artist and a member of the League of Allied Arts.
Date:: March 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Grant Still seated next at a piano and looking at a music score as he works on a composition.
Date:: [1960-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Grant Still standing next to a piano holding his son, Duncan, with his wife, Verna Arvey, and daughter, Judith, seated at the piano.
Date:: [circa 1944]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Moore, Pryor
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Grant Still conducting a symphony orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl during the Los Angeles Birthday Fiesta.
Date:: [circa 1967]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1975
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William Edgar Easton seated with his granddaughter, Athenaise Marie Houston, in his lap and his daughter, Dorothy Easton Houston, standing behind him, in front of a house.
Date:: [1924-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Roscoe Jones was a famous African American golfer during the Jim Crow era in American History. He competed in several events held at West Coast golf clubs during the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:: [1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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