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

Description:: Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith was born Cynthiabelle Black in Americus, Georgia. Her father was Alfred Black and her brother was Junior G. Black. She married the dentist, Dr. Isadore C. Mitchell (April 30, 1925). Shortly after, he completed dental school at Howard University and then moved to Los Angeles. In 1934, she moved to Washington, D.C. seeking work, and divorced Mitchell in 1936. In 1937 she was working for the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, D. C. She married the physician Dr. Wilbur Gordon (possibly in 1942) and was widowed. She married Dr. R. Stillman Smith in 1947.
Date:: [1947]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: [1944-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of the 41 members of the graduating class of the Frank Wiggins Trade School in the basketball gymnasium of the school, with Floyd C. Covington (top, 4th from L).
Date:: June 15, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles home of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, at 1549 W. 35th St. in Los Angeles. Because of Mr. Portwig's Naval career, they name the house "The Anchor" and it was the gathering place for the younger social set called the "Anchorettes."
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adair Photo L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 on Paloma St.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of students and adults seated in front of a Victorian style house. In the middle of the front row is a sign reading "W. T. Wilkins Music School / E.M.C. Music Club / The W. T. Wilkins Pupil Recital / At Lyceum T.M.A. Hall / Tuesday / May 15th 1917."
Date:: May 15, 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Stephen Arnold Rendall was an ambrotypist and photographer who migrated from England and was active in Southern California in the early 1860s and from 1866-1869.
Date:: [circa 1869]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rendall, Stephen Arnold, 1832-1905
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Rep. Diggs reiterates vow to challenge Miss. seats," Los Angeles Sentinel, 1 Dec. 1955: A1.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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