Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection / Date: 1976 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: House of Nannie V. Holt and James L. Holt, located at 1320 Albany St., Los Angeles.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Members of the 10th Cavalry celebrate the 94th birthday of Lieutenant William M. Dunn.
Date:: November 18, 1967
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:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Betye Saar’s is an African American artist whose work mixes surreal, symbolic imagery with a folk art aesthetic. As a participant in the African-American Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s, Saar appropriated characters such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, and other stereotypes from folk culture and advertising in her works—usually collages and assemblages.
Date:: [1970s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James Bruington worked for Diamond Coal Company for many years.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, with a native Indian man beginning the construction of the first Los Angeles pueblo home, built of sticks, with 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Date:: [1931-1989]
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:: Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, detail view of Africans among the 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Date:: [1931-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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