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

Description:: Edgar A. Kepler's photography studio, "E. A. Kepler & Co.," is documented in Detroit from 1896 to 1899.
Date:: [1895-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: E. A. Kepler & Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman wearing an elaborate hat, coat and fur piece.
Date:: [1860-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of an African American boy seating on a wooden chair wearing a suit, and holding a scrolled document, perhaps a diploma.
Date:: [1890-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of a young girl standing beside a classicizing pedestal with a basket of flowers and a painted landscape backdrop. She is a member of the A. J. Roberts family, perhaps his daughter, Myrtle.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of a young boy standing beside a classicizing pedestal with a basket of flowers and a painted landscape backdrop. He is a member of the A. J. Roberts family, perhaps his son, William or Frederick.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 African Americans. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Date:: [circa 1950]
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-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving C.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of an older African American woman wearing a dark-colored suit jacket with a necklace and broach.
Date:: [1940s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of an African American woman wearing a light-colored suit and hat with a broach on the lapel.
Date:: [1940s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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