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Group attending the dedication of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. murals titled "The Negro in California History," Los Angeles, 1949

Description:
Group gathered following the unveiling of the two murals titled “The Negro in California History” in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company’s new home office building (4261 S. Central Ave.). The murals were painted by artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston and installed on the lower walls of the Roman travertine against which the group is standing. Left to right: George Beavers, Jr., chairman of the board, Golden State Mutual; Charlotta Bass, Publisher of the California Eagle, pulled the cord to unveil the Charles Alston Mural; Norman O. Houston, President, Golden State Mutual; Gussie Woods, mother of Hale Woodruff, pulled the cord to unveil the Woodruff mural; and Titus Alexander, member of the California Historical Society who aided in the research upon which the murals are based.
Date:
1949
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Group attending the dedication of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. murals titled "The Negro in California History," Los Angeles, 1949

Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:
Gathering for the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, including Vassie Wright (3rd from left), and Kenny Habor (holding the plaque) and Gladys Owens, great-granddaughter of Biddy Mason (3rd from right).
Date:
February 1957
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Group portrait of children outside tents after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Group portrait of children outside tents after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Group portrait of the Congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1961

Description:
Hamel Hartford Brookins was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years and a civil rights activist. He helped start and was president of the United Civil Rights Council, which helped the black community recover from the Watts riots in 1965. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he was an articulate, self-assured champion of black political empowerment.
Date:
July 09, 1961
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Group portrait of the Congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1961

Hale Woodruff, artist who painted the Golden State Mutual mural "The Negro in California History - Settlement and Development," circa 1930-1948

Description:
Photographic portrait of artist Hale Woodruff. Woodruff painted a mural in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. building in Los Angeles, entitled "The Negro in California History - Settlement and Development" around 1948.
Date:
[circa 1930-1948]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Hale Woodruff, artist who painted the Golden State Mutual mural "The Negro in California History - Settlement and Development," circa 1930-1948

Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Portrait photograph of Harold E. Pomeroy, who was assistant director and director of public relations of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration, the local branch of the State Emergency Relief Administration (S.E.R.A.). S.E.R.A. provided relief funds during the Great Depression.
Date:
[July 29, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935