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

Portrait of "Dolly N. Townsend," a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1940

Description:: Photograph of a Dolly N. Townsend wearing a necklace and corsage.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of "Curtis," a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American man named Curtis, wearing a suit and felt hat.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of "Carolyn," a friend of the Charles Matthews, brother of Miriam Matthews, 1923

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman named "Carolyn," wearing a suit jacket.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a Young woman, Mary Ann Knox family, 1880-1900 (?)

Description:: This photograph also appears in the folder of images of Corona White Bauman and her parents, Lloyd and Mary White.
Date:: [1880-1900 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a young woman, Mary Ann Knox family, 1880-1900 (?)

Description:: This photograph also appears in the folder of images of Corona White Bauman and her parents, Lloyd and Mary White.
Date:: [1880-1900 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1930-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman wearing a dark fabric dress and a string of pearls.
Date:: [1930-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1950

Description:: Photograph of a young African American woman wearing a light-colored cotton and lace dress, with a string of pearls and a watch. She is seated in front of a painted landscape backdrop.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a young woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1940

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman wearing a with same-fabric bows and a crystal bead necklace.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a young woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman wearing a silk off-the-shoulder dress, a string of pearls and a feather stole.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young woman, a friend of the Matthews family, 1890-1910

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman wearing an Edwardian era Gibson Girl style blouse and skirt.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young woman, 1870-1915

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman dressed in a light-colored garment with ruffles.
Date:: [1870-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young man, friend or family of Miriam Matthews, 1920-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American man in a light-colored suit.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young man, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American man wearing a suit.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a young man, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1910

Description:: Studio portrait of a young man wearing a suit with a bow tie, standing on an oriental rug in front of a painted landscape backdrop.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dando L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1940

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman wearing a velvet dress with a string of pearls.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1900-1930

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman wearing a light-colored dress with a string of pearls and a barrette in her hair.
Date:: [1900-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a woman, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1920

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman, in profile, wearing a dress, a pearl necklace and a chain necklace.
Date:: [1890-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a "Sandy," a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1920-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American man named "Sandy" wearing a suit and hat.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a man, Mary Ann Knox family (?), 1880-1900 (?)

Description:: Photocopy of a studio portrait of a man -- member of the family of Mary Ann Knox.
Date:: [1880-1900 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a man, Mary Ann Knox family (?), 1880-1900 (?)

Description:: Photocopy of a studio portrait of a man -- member of the family of Mary Ann Knox (?).
Date:: [1880-1900 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a man, circa 1950

Description:: Man in a suite wearing a pocket square.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Earl Ford Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a girl, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1910-1920

Description:: Studio portrait, on a postcard, of a young woman or teenager in a light-colored satin dress. The postcard is addressed to Miriam Matthews and her sister, Ella.
Date:: [1910-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a girl, 1926

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American girl wearing a light-colored dress and a flower headband.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a couple, friends of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1910

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American couple. The man sears a 3-piece suit and the woman wears a cotton lace Edwardian era blouse with a fleur-de-lis broach at the neckline.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a couple, friends of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1910

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American couple. The man stands, holding his hat; the woman is seated, wearing a light-colored dress with a lace bodice and sleeves and a hat trimmed with an ostrich feather.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Portrait of a black man, California, circa 1850-1890

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American man.
Date:: [circa 1850-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a black early Californian woman, possibly a slave, holding a light skinned baby, possibly white, between 1850-1865

Description:: Studio portrait of a black early Californian woman (Possibly a slave) wearing a satin dress and a headscarf, holding a light skinned baby (possibly white), in a decorative, embossed frame.
Date:: [1850-1865]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a black early Californian mother and daughter, between 1850-1890

Description:: Studio portrait of a well-dressed black woman (Possibly a slave or servant) and a young child (Possibly white), in a decorative, embossed frame.
Date:: [between 1850-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, circa 1935

Description:: Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, the widow of Dr. Fred Whiteman, married Dr. George Bernard Key in 1960. She was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, circa 1925

Description:: Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, the widow of Dr. Fred Whiteman, married Dr. George Bernard Key in 1960. She was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, circa 1925

Description:: Pocahontas O. Whiteman Key, the widow of Dr. Fred Whiteman, married Dr. George Bernard Key in 1960. She was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Pleasant Dixon Logan, 1870s-1880s

Description:: Studio portrait of Pleasant Dixon Logan.
Date:: [1870-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society page in the El Rodeo yearbook, 1930

Description:: Edwin Lucius Jefferson was a 1931 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He was the first African American judge west of the Mississippi when he was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1941, and the first African American Justice for the California 2nd Appellate Court of Appeals. Jefferson was a civic leader, who in 1943 served on a committee to improve the housing situation for minorities in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pickens family, circa 1940

Description:: Studio portrait of Emilie and William Pickens and their sons William (left) and Richard.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pickens family, circa 1939

Description:: Studio portrait of Emilie Pickens and her sons Richard (left) and William.
Date:: [circa 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

People attending the installation of the plaque marking the location of the SE corner of El Pueblo Nuestra Señora La Reina De Los Angeles, Boyle Heights (Los Angeles), 1980

Description:: Group portrait of five people attending the installation of the plaque commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of El Pueblo de Los Ángeles. The plaque marks the southeast boundary, at 3821 E. Olympic Blvd., in Boyle Heights.
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

People at an outdoor social gathering, circa 1930s (?)

Description:: People posing for a group portrait at an outdoor gathering.
Date:: [1930s ?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pearl Hinds Roberts with a gathering of women, circa 1960

Description:: Pearl Hinds Roberts was the widow of Frederick Madison Roberts, an American newspaper owner and editor, educator and business owner. He became a politician, the first known man of African American descent elected to the California State Assembly. He has been honored as the first person of African American descent to be elected to public office among the states on the West Coast.
Date:: [circa 1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pearl Hinds (Roberts) in her wedding dress with bridal attendants, 1921

Description:: Bridal portrait of Pearl Hinds with (Roberts) in her bridal gown with her attendants, from left: Irene Rutherford, Lillian Wall Williams, the Bride, Lutie Gilbert Saunders, "Essie" (Myrtle Estelle) Roberts Saunders (sister of the groom, Frederick Madison Roberts) and Mamie McKinney Wilds. The little girl is unidentified.
Date:: November 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pearl Hinds (Roberts) in her sixth grade class portrait at Durant Grammar School, Oakland, circa 1904

Description:: Pearl W. Hinds Roberts was the daughter of Lucy and Wiley Hinds, owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in California. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the Electoral College in 1952. She was married to Frederick M. Roberts, the first black Assemblyman elected to state office west of the Mississippi.
Date:: [circa 1904]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Weitz, Hugo, b. 1849
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pearl Hinds (Roberts), circa 1910

Description:: Studio portrait of Pearl Hinds (Roberts), wearing her graduation dress, before she married Frederick Madison Roberts.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pearl Cooper Johnson, circa 1895

Description:: Pearl Cooper Johnson was chosen to ride in the Los Angeles Fiesta de Los Angeles parade in 1900 on a float submitted by the California Eagle newspaper (a black newspaper founded in 1891). She married Shadrick Johnson and was the mother of Cornelius Cooper Johnson, who won the Olympic gold medal in high jump in 1936.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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P. B. Peters, New York, circa 1934

Description:: Studio portrait of P. B. Peters
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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P. B. Peters, 1920s

Description:: Studio portrait of P. B. Peters wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pauline Powell Burns, San Francisco, 1890-1902

Description:: Studio portrait of Pauline Powell Burns.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pauline Petit Logan, 1870s-1880s

Description:: Studio portrait of Pauline Petit Logan.
Date:: [1870-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Paul Howard holding his saxophone at the front steps of a house, 1920s

Description:: Paul Howard played sax with many orchestras and at one time was the secretary of Negro Musicians' Union.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Paul Howard, 1950

Description:: Studio portrait of Paul Howard.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Party given by Emily Brown Childress (later Portwig) at her home, Los Angeles (?), 1918

Description:: Eighteen women and two children at a party given by Emily Brown Childress (later Portwig; front row, 2nd adult from left) gathered for a group portrait in front of a house.
Date:: 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Party for Mary McLeod Bethune's 75th birthday at the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville, Los Angeles, 1950

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:: July 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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