Genre: Portrait photographs / Resource Type: still image / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American Episcopal minister wearing a biretta, surplice and stole.
Date:: [1880-1920]
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:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of an African American conductor or band leader wearing a uniform with epaulets.
Date:: [undated]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of Lloyd Dickey, superintendent of the Willowbrook School District, seated at his desk.
Date:: 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group wedding portrait of Loren Miller, Jr. (to the right of the bride) and his first wife (probably) Anne M. Risher Miller, with family members gathered around them. .
Date:: [November 16, 1957 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council. He received an associate in arts degree from Compton College and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in 1951. While an undergraduate, he joined the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He earned a law degree from UCLA in 1954.
Date:: [1950-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fourteen African Americans wearing suits and overcoats, standing in front of the porch of a brick building. Three reverends wearing white collars are among the group.
Date:: undated
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:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Victoria Shorey seated on a lawn, in a lace blouse and skirt. Her mother was quoted as saying "Victoria is a remarkable sailor. She knows all the ropes and has the perfect command of her father."
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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