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

Description:: Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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
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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
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Description:: Interior of the Robert Curry Owens house on Albany St., with decorative woodwork and American Indian rugs.
Date:: 1909
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of the house of Robert Owens, Sr., with a fence on the left and a picket fence in front with a woman seated on the porch. Seen from the unpaved street.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community. She was the first Black school board member and she worked for the Los Angeles Housing authority.
Date:: February 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Juanita Ellsworth Miller was the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare for the State of California, a chartered member of the Allied Arts League and a life member of the NAACP. She was married to judge Loren Miller.
Date:: February 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Tom Bradley (probably, left), Loren Miller (center) and one other man at the Democratic Convention.
Date:: July 7, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ten school age girls of different ethnic backgrounds are standing on the steps in front of the main entrance of Helen Hunt Jackson Benach Library. One girl is holding a large book entitled Mother Goose.
Date:: May 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Elmer Bartlett was a highly acclaimed choir director and organist. Churches where he worked in include the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. He received several awards in the course of his career including first prize for directing the Los Angeles AME's choir at a 1926 choir competition at the Hollywood Bowl. By 1940 he had moved to Elgin Illinois. He continued to direct choirs and play the organ for various A.M.E. churches.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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