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House of Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, 1931-1968

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1926-1968]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
House of Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, 1931-1968

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members Martha Williams, Carol Brice, and Ursula Murrell at a sorority event, Los Angeles, 1935-1950

Description:
Carol Brice was an American contralto. She studied at Palmer Memorial Institute, Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama (BA, 1939), and the Juilliard School of Music (1939-1943). She attracted considerable attention for her role in a production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair (1939), where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.
Date:
[1935-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members Martha Williams, Carol Brice, and Ursula Murrell at a sorority event, Los Angeles, 1935-1950

Dr. Vada Somerville, Marian Anderson and Martha Jefferson Louis, Los Angeles, 1940s

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:
[1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville, Marian Anderson and Martha Jefferson Louis, Los Angeles, 1940s

Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1930-1945

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1930-1945]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1930-1945

Bessie Bruington Burke with elementary school students, Los Angeles, 1918-1938

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1918-1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke with elementary school students, Los Angeles, 1918-1938

Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Bessie Bruington Burke, 1918-1938

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1918-1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke, 1918-1938

Commercial building owned by Margaret Scott, Los Angeles,1930-1950

Description:
Two story commercial building with a Spanish style roof tile accent and relief medallions, on the corner of Griffith Avenue and East 16th Street. The sign reading "Bob's Meat Market" is topped by a "Coca-Cola" logo. The house of Margaret and John M. Scott, at 1011 E. 16th St. is visible beyond the building.
Date:
[1930-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Commercial building owned by Margaret Scott, Los Angeles,1930-1950

Dunbar Hotel (formerly Hotel Somerville), Los Angeles, 1930s

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:
[1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dunbar Hotel (formerly Hotel Somerville), Los Angeles, 1930s

Congregation of the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1930-1960

Description:
The Hamilton M. E. Church of Los Angeles was formed in 1904. It was originally named the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and changed the name in 1952 to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Historically, the church denomination was a trailblazer in their support of women’s professional development and leadership roles in organizing church missions and in the ministry. The church has its roots in evangelicalism, and has maintained that connection throughout its history.
Date:
[1930-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Congregation of the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1930-1960

Old Watts Library, Los Angeles, 1913-1957

Description:
Watts was a small working man's city without a library at the time of its application for Carnegie funding. A grant of $10,000 was received in 1913 and the building was completed in 1914. The architect Elmore Jeffery designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The builder was H.E. La Rue. With little tax base, Watts had trouble providing utilities and services, including library service, and became the only Los Angeles County municipality to join the county library system before 1917. In 1926, seeking relief from the postwar depression and unemployment, and needing a larger base, Watts sought annexation to Los Angeles. The Watts Library then became a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. In 1957, voters approved a Branch Library Bond Issue, and funding was made available for the construction of a new facility. The new Watts Branch was opened in 1960. The Carnegie building is no longer standing. [http://www.carnegie-libraries.org/california/watts.html]
Date:
[1913-1957]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Old Watts Library, Los Angeles, 1913-1957

Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

House of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
House of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Description:
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:
[1920-1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940