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

Description:: Alison Saar is an African American artist who seeks to clearly communicate her ideas and emotions through the power of form. Her sculptures have their own personal vocabulary that speaks in a direct language about history, race, and mythology. Her works tell the stories of the African American experience over time and space. She is the daughter of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Date:: [circa 1980]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Out of focus portrait of an elderly African American woman standing in front of a flowering tree.
Date:: [1960-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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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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
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Description:: Photographs appear with the newspaper article: "Documentary explores lives of black L.A. pioneers," Los Angeles Sentinel, 15 Dec. 1988, p. 8.
Date:: December 14, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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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