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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

Betty Hill, circa 1920

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:
[circa 1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, circa 1920

Betty Barnes has her marriage to William Ewing Nagel voided, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Betty Barnes is seated in a folding chair in a room with magazine cutouts pasted on to the wall. She wears a dress with flowing sleeves and skirt with a silk waistband and a mink stole draped across her shoulders. She smiles at the camera warmly. Photo appears with the article "Marriage Found Void Because of Previous Union," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1927: A6. The 1930 Census records Betty and Nagel as a married couple.
Date:
July 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Betty Barnes has her marriage to William Ewing Nagel voided, Los Angeles, 1927

Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1955-1968

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:
[1955-1968]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1955-1968

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, Los Angeles, circa 1907

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:
[circa 1907]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, circa 1907

Bessie Bruington Burke and her sister, Ethel Bruington, as young girls, Los Angeles, circa 1895

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:
[circa 1895]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke and her sister, Ethel Bruington, as young girls, Los Angeles, circa 1895

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

Baldwin M. Baldwin, 1927

Description:
This photograph appears with the article “Reports Vary on Reputed Romance, Baldwin’s Love Hints Belittled, Wife of Man Reported to Be Courting Mlle. Lenglen Says: ‘What of It?’.” Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 1927. The article states: “Well, what of it?” and with a smart toss of her head Mrs. Nell Maxine Wilson-Baldwin dismissed interest, at least as far as outward appearances went, in the report from Cuba that her husband, Baldwin M. Baldwin, heir to the “Lucky” Baldwin millions, is engaged to Suzanne Lenglen, tempestuous French tennis star. …
Date:
1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Baldwin M. Baldwin, 1927

Attendees at the anniversary dinner of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Group portrait of 8 attendees at the anniversary dinner of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, perhaps at the Jonathan Club. They stand behind a cake inscribed with the message "36th Birthday L. A. Stock Exchange." The group includes, L to R: Robert L. Stott, a governor of the exchange; McClarty Harbison, president of the local mart; Jacob C. Stone; Maurice L. Farrell, chairman of the committee on public relations; Darrell J. Bogardus; Charles R. Gay, president of the New York Stock Exchange; Richard H. Gordon; and James W. Elliott.
Date:
December 6, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Attendees at the anniversary dinner of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, Los Angeles, 1935

Astronomer Dr. Mars Baumgardt, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:
This image appears with the article "Four Named to Park Body: Mayor Presents His Nominations to City Council," Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1939: 10. Dr. Mars Frederick Baumgardt was an optometrist and science lecturer. He served as president of the Southern California Academy of Science and of the Astronomical Society. He was also a director of the Clark Observatory, member of the Nature Club of Southern California, a State fire warden, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain.
Date:
1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Astronomer Dr. Mars Baumgardt, Los Angeles, 1939

Arthur E. Prince, superintendent of the Enterprise School District, Redding, circa 1950

Description:
Arthur E. Prince was the superintendent of the Enterprise School District. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and was active in civic events in Southern California. He and his wife were the second black family to reside in Pasadena.
Date:
[circa 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Arthur E. Prince, superintendent of the Enterprise School District, Redding, circa 1950

Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Description:
Arthur Burnside Dodge was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and his family moved to California in 1864. For ten they lived in Grass Valley, then settled in San Francisco. There he began his career as a wood engraver at age 18 and spent five years in New York City studying art. Upon returning to San Francisco, he was an illustrator for local newspapers from 1890 until 1901. He then moved to Los Angeles where he continued newspaper work. After four years at the Morning Herald, he spent 42 years as art director at the Los Angeles Times. Known as "Boss" to his friends, he died in Los Angeles in 1952.
Date:
[circa May 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Description:
Arthur Burnside Dodge was born in Providence, Rhode Island, ban his family moved to California in 1864. For ten they lived in Grass Valley, then settled in San Francisco. There he began his career as a wood engraver at age 18 and spent five years in New York City studying art. Upon returning to San Francisco, he was an illustrator for local newspapers from 1890 until 1901. He then moved to Los Angeles where he continued newspaper work. After four years at the Morning Herald, he spent 42 years as art director at the Los Angeles Times. Known as "Boss" to his friends, he died in Los Angeles in 1952.
Date:
[circa May 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Army Air Corps Colonel H. H. Arnold, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Description:
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold became an American General holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the world's largest non-profit global policy think tanks, the RAND Corporation, and one of the founders of Pan American World Airways. In the 1930s, he was the Commander of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Date:
[between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Army Air Corps Colonel H. H. Arnold, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Archie Carter and Attorney Stanley Visel at the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The newspaper article that this photograph is associated with contains a photograph that is very similar, but is slightly different from this photograph. The caption for the photograph published in the newspaper states, “In a tense moment in a courtroom murder drama, Archie Carter, right, and Attorney Stanley Visel demonstrate from the witness stand how Carter attempted to wrest the gun from the hand of his wife, Gladys, on trial for murder".
Date:
June 10, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Archie Carter and Attorney Stanley Visel at the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935