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Description:: Lillie Dejarnette married Alva Garrott in 1893. Dr. Garrott earned degrees in Pharmacy and Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D. C. before bringing his family to Los Angeles in 1901, becoming this city's first Negro dentist.
Date:: [circa 1881]
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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield Photo
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Madame Sul-Te-Wan (born Nellie Crawford) was an African American stage, film and television actress. She was a character actress, most often appearing in "Mammy" roles.” She departed from this type casting when she appeared in the African-American cast musical drama, Carmen Jones, as Dorothy Dandridge's grandmother (1954).
Date:: October 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Date:: 1857
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Robert James Boyd was born in North Carolina. He married Emma P. Barrett in Los Angeles and in 1910 they lived at 1242 El Molino (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.) in Los Angeles, next to 1244 El Molino, where Emma had lived with her family before she was married from as early as 1900. By 1917, he is reported as working in a barbershop in Riverside city directories from 1917 to 1947. According to Miriam Matthews, he owned the barbershop. Robert and Emma had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sunbeam Art Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Vivian Osborne Marsh with two men and one woman at a testimonial dinner given for her retirement.
Date:: [circa 1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Fannie E. Garrott, seated on a wooden chair with relief carving and an oriental carpet draped over the back. Her hat, on her lap, is decorated with flowers.
Date:: [circa 1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Bessie Bruington Burke with her younger sister Ethel Bruington. Ethel is seated on a chair covered with what looks like a sheepskin rug.
Date:: [circa 1894]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Garrott earned degrees in Pharmacy and Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D. C. before bringing his family to Los Angeles in 1901, becoming this city's first Negro dentist. After his first wife, Lillie Garrott, died in 1916, Dr. Garrott married Alice Watkins, who became a dentist.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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