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

Ruby Harvey, circa 1915

Description:: Ruby Fulks was the daughter of contractor James Marsh Harvey.
Date:: [circa 1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Roy Wilkins, 1934-1968

Description:: Portrait of Roy Wilkins.
Date:: [1934-1968]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Roy Fowler, son of California Eagle reporter John Fowler, 1918

Description:: Roy Fowler's father, John Fowler, wrote a column called "Spreading Joy," which was published in the California Eagle newspaper. John Fowler's sister, Cora, married Felix Beckford and lived in Oakland. Their daughter, Ruth Beckford, is a dancer, teacher and author.
Date:: November 24, 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Rory Boba Lewis, grandson of Samuel B. and Theresa Danley Bel Virginia Harper Danley

Description:: Rory Lewis, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Danley, graduate of University of Alabama.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pallotto, Danielle
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Roland Hayes, 1930s-1940s

Description:: Studio portrait of Roland Hayes.
Date:: [1930s-1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Roland Hayes, 1920s-1930s

Description:: Roland Hayes was an American lyric tenor and composer. In 1915 Hayes premiered in New York City in concerts presented by the orchestra leader Walter F. Craig. Hayes performed his own musical arrangements in recitals from 1916 to 1919, touring from coast to coast. He recorded with Columbia in 1939. Hayes continued to perform until the age of 85.
Date:: [1920s-1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert James Boyd, circa 1890s

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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Robert James Boyd and a friend, 1890-1900

Description:: Studio portrait of James Robert Boyd (right) seated on a bent-wood garden bench in casual attire, with a friend seated on a bent-wood chair and holding a piece of paper with "horseman" written on it.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens, circa 1900

Description:: Studio portrait of Robert Curry Owens.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens, circa 1900

Description:: Robert Curry Owens was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr., and Biddy Mason, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens, circa 1890

Description:: Robert Curry Owens was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr., and Biddy Mason, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners.
Date:: [circa 1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens as a young boy, Los Angeles, circa 1865

Description:: Robert Curry Owens was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr., and Biddy Mason, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners.
Date:: [circa 1865]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens, 1880-1900

Description:: Studio portrait of Robert Curry Owens.
Date:: [1880-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Allison Logan and Ella Victoria Parsens Logan, Red Bluff, 1890s

Description:: Studio portrait of Robert Allison Logan and Ella Victoria Parsens Logan.
Date:: [1890s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gaines
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Richmond Logan and Lilla Ellen Bowser Logan, Red Bluff, 1880s

Description:: Studio portrait of Richmond Logan and Lilla Ellen Bowser Logan.
Date:: [1880s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Worthington & Co. (Red Bluff, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Richard "Dimples" Fields, Los Angeles, 1975-1989

Description:: Publicity photo of R&B and soul singer Richard "Dimples" Fields.
Date:: [1975-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Rex Ingram, 1936

Description:: Rex Ingram graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in medicine before launching a brilliant acting career which spanned 50 years. Ingram also appeared on the Broadway stage and in television productions, bringing skill and dignity to every performance. He is probably best remembered for his portrayal of Jim, the fugitive slave, opposite Mickey Rooney in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939). He later opened the Club Alabam in the Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend Walter T. Cleghorn, Los Angeles, 1919

Description:: Walter T. Cleghorn was a native of St. Kitts island in the West Indies. He came to the United States in 1905 and graduated from Oskaloosa College, Iowa, in 1908. He became the first Vicar of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Los Angeles in 1910, and was an executive member of the NAACP
Date:: 1919
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend Walter T. Cleghorn, Los Angeles, 1919

Description:: Detail from a studio portrait of Reverend Walter T. Cleghorn standing beside a chair. He is wearing a biretta, lace surplice, and stole, published in Negro trailblazers of California by Delilah L. Beasley (1919), 354A.
Date:: 1919
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend T. M. D. Ward, circa 1865

Description:: Studio portrait Thomas M. D. Ward.
Date:: [circa 1865]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend J. Logan Craw and the church choir in front of the First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1915-1919

Description:: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:: [between 1915-1919]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend James Lodge, San Jose, circa 1865

Description:: James Lodge was one of the first deacons and trustees of the First A.M.E. Zion Church in San Jose.
Date:: [circa 1865]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend Harold M. Kingsley, Carol Brice, Jackie Robinson, G. Raymond Booth and John Anson Ford, Los Angeles, 1943-1953

Description:: G. Raymond Booth, a Quaker pastor, was the Executive Secretary of the AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) Pacific Coast Branch in 1940.
Date:: [between 1943-1953]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend Clayton D. Russell's page in the California Negro Directory, 1943

Description:: Reverend Clayton D. Russell was an important religious and political leader in the Los Angeles African American community. He was the pastor of the People's Independent Church of Christ from 1936 to 1953. He founded the Church of Divine Guidance in 1953 and was the pastor until his death in 1981.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Reverend Clayton D. Russell and Gwendolyn Diggs, Los Angeles, 1940-1960

Description:: Reverend Clayton D. Russell was an important religious and political leader in the Los Angeles African American community. He was the pastor of the People's Independent Church of Christ from 1936 to 1953. He founded the Church of Divine Guidance in 1953 and was the pastor until his death in 1981.
Date:: [1940-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Relative of Vivian Osborne Marsh, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:: Studio portrait of a female relative of Vivian Osborne Marsh
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Relative of Mary Ann Knox (?), undated

Description:: This photograph also appears in the folder of images of Corona White Bauman and her parents, Lloyd and Mary White.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Relative of Mary Ann Knox (?), undated

Description:: This photograph also appears in the folder of images of Corona White Bauman and her parents, Lloyd and Mary White.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Relative of Bessie Coleman seated beside a trophy cup, 1920s

Description:: Studio portrait of a relative of Bessie Coleman, an African American woman, holding an award cup, most likely earned by Bessie Coleman.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ray Parker Jr., Los Angeles, 1975-1989

Description:: Publicity photo of guitarist and songwriter Ray Parker Jr.
Date:: [1975-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Raymond St. Jacques, 1970s

Description:: Raymond St. Jacques was an actor, director and producer. He was the first African American actor to appear in a regular role on a western series, playing Simon Blake on Rawhide.
Date:: [1970s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ralph Bunche, circa 1965

Description:: Studio portrait of Ralph Bunche.
Date:: [circa 1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ralph Bunche, circa 1965

Description:: Studio portrait of Ralph Bunche.
Date:: [circa 1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ralph Bunche, circa 1922-1930

Description:: Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [circa 1922-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hartsook, Fred, 1876-1930
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ralph Bunche, 1948-1968

Description:: Studio portrait of Ralph Bunche.
Date:: [1948-1968]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Professor William Payne, co-founder of the town of Allensworth, 1920-1940

Description:: Studio portrait of William Payne.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pre-dedication banquet for the dedication of Frederick Roberts Park in his honor, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Pre dedication banquet to celebrate the dedication of Frederick Roberts Park, with Pearl Hinds Roberts, his wife (seated, 2nd from right). About 42 people are grouped around the table for a group portrait. The location might be the home of Frederick and Pearl Roberts.
Date:: May 20, 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Post card photograph of "Jack" Anne Louise Shaw, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1920

Description:: Photograph of Anne Louise Shaw in a polka dot dress with eyelet-and-ribbon trim, standing beside a vine-covered fence in the yard of a house.
Date:: [1890-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portraits of Vivian Osborne Marsh and 15 others in "The Crisis" magazine, 1922

Description:: Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Date:: May 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portraits of the members of the United States Grand Jury, July Term 1878, including an African American named David W. Ruggles

Description:: Twenty two portraits of the members of the United States Grand Jury, July Term 1878 (top to bottom, left to right:): N. G. Kittle, James Carolan, G. L. Taylor, S. C. Bigelow, John Spaulding, Henry Payot, W. F. Swasey (Secretary), Charles L. Dingley, Henry L. Davis, Thomas L. Taylor, Sol. Wangenheim, D. S. Bachman, Wallace Everson, George P. Bragg, George B. Knowles, Nathaniel Gray, Thomas Houseworth, Abram D. Clark, Robert K. Patridge, Joseph Elfelt, and David W. Ruggles.
Date:: 1878
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portraits of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity members in the El Rodeo yearbook, Los Angeles, 1925

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:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman, Oakland, 1868-1894

Description:: W. B. Ingersoll operated his photography studio at 1069 Broadway (Broadway and 12th) from about 1868 to 1894.
Date:: [1868-1894]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Ingersoll, W. B. (William Booker), b. 1834
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman, 1860-1900

Description:: Studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman in a gingham fabric dress, standing beside a drapery panel and in front of a painted landscape backdrop.
Date:: [1860-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified man, 1860-1900

Description:: Studio portrait of an unidentified African American man.
Date:: [1860-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of two women, circa 1950

Description:: Studio portrait of two African American women.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of Reverend E. L. Chew, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, circa 1910

Description:: Studio portrait of E. L. Chew.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of "Mamie," a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1940

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman wearing a dress and a long strand of pearls.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of Edythe Thompson Kemp, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1926

Description:: Studio portrait of Edyth Thompson [Kemp].
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of Edgar Johnson, 1924

Description:: The same portrait appears in the UCLA yearbook of 1924. Edgar J. Johnson worked for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company for 45 years, rising to President of the company.
Date:: [1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of Dr. George S. Pryce, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, circa 1930

Description:: Dr. George S. Pryce was a medical doctor and a pharmacist.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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