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

Description:: Group portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, event speaker, and 22 African Americans at the Second Baptist Church. Mrs. Bethune is in the front wearing a black dress and is leaning on the podium; Norman O. Houston is present (9th from right). On arch above the sanctuary is painted: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism".
Date:: [1938 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Robert Owens, Sr., was an early African American pioneer in Los Angeles. He had a business and owned land.
Date:: 1884
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Actress Beulah Hall with members of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, left to right: Clarence Brooks (secretary), Noble Johnson (president), Dudley Brooks (assistant secretary), and Dr. James Smith (treasurer). They are standing in front of a picket fence and a building with wood siding.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:: December 13, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Police officer Frank White stands next to an early model car in front of his house. He wears a fedora hat. There is a wood frame house in the background with palm trees on either side. This may be the address listed in the 1920 census at 1725 W. 35th Place.
Date:: [1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mamie Virginia Cunningham White was the first African American clerk in the Los Angeles Post Office, and became an early real estate broker in Los Angeles and headed the city's first negro employment agency.
Date:: Summer 1905
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of a mountain pass, possibly the Cahuenga pass, with two people riding bicycles. The Cahuenga Pass connects the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley via U.S. Route 101 (Hollywood Freeway).
Date:: [1870-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Johnny Riddle in a football uniform on page 73 of the University of Southern California 1925 yearbook.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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