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Bessie Bruington Burke, 1918-1938

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1918-1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke, 1918-1938

Bessie Bruington Burke and her sister, Ethel Bruington, as young girls, Los Angeles, circa 1895

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[circa 1895]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke and her sister, Ethel Bruington, as young girls, Los Angeles, circa 1895

Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, circa 1907

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[circa 1907]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, circa 1907

Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1930-1945

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1930-1945]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1930-1945

Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1955-1968

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1955-1968]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke seated at a desk, 1955-1968

Betty Barnes has her marriage to William Ewing Nagel voided, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Betty Barnes is seated in a folding chair in a room with magazine cutouts pasted on to the wall. She wears a dress with flowing sleeves and skirt with a silk waistband and a mink stole draped across her shoulders. She smiles at the camera warmly. Photo appears with the article "Marriage Found Void Because of Previous Union," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1927: A6. The 1930 Census records Betty and Nagel as a married couple.
Date:
July 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Betty Barnes has her marriage to William Ewing Nagel voided, Los Angeles, 1927

Betty Hill, circa 1920

Description:
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:
[circa 1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, circa 1920

Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Description:
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:
[1920-1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Betye Saar and Alison Saar, Los Angeles, circa 1980

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Betye Saar and Alison Saar, Los Angeles, circa 1980

Betye Saar, Los Angeles, 1970s

Description:
Betye Saar’s is an African American artist whose work mixes surreal, symbolic imagery with a folk art aesthetic. As a participant in the African-American Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s, Saar appropriated characters such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, and other stereotypes from folk culture and advertising in her works—usually collages and assemblages.
Date:
[1970s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betye Saar, Los Angeles, 1970s

Beulah Woodard holding a papier mâché mask of an African man that she made, New York, circa 1937

Description:
Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Date:
[circa 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Allen
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Beulah Woodard holding a papier mâché mask of an African man that she made, New York, circa 1937

Bill Paine, Southern California restaurateur, 1934

Description:
Portrait photograph of Wiliam E. Paine (Bill Paine) wearing a three piece suit and a textured tie. He is photographed from the chest up, leaning forward. A handkerchief is in his breast pocket, and he wears a lapel pin studded with diamonds of a crescent moon interlaced with a scimitar. The pin is a symbol of the Shriners.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bill Paine, Southern California restaurateur, 1934

Billy Mills in a suit with pocket square, 1950-1960

Description:
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council. He received an associate in arts degree from Compton College and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in 1951. While an undergraduate, he joined the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He earned a law degree from UCLA in 1954.
Date:
[1950-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Billy Mills in a suit with pocket square, 1950-1960

Bishop Charles Reifsnider, 1928

Description:
Charles Reifsnider was a the Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of North Tokyo from 1924 to 1935, and the Bishop in charge of new diocesan work of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Japan from 1942 to 1946. He was also president of St. Paul University in Tokyo from 1912 to 1941; director of St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, from 1935 to 1941 and president of St. Margaret's College of Tokyo from 1935 to 1941.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bishop Charles Reifsnider, 1928

Bowdoin family, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:
Lorenzo Bowdoin was a Los Angeles businessman, civic leader, philanthropist and NAACP leader. One of the first three black clerks hired by the Los Angeles Post Office in 1906, he worked there for 38 years and improved hiring and promotion policies for blacks. He was one of the organizers of Angelus Mortuary (1925) and was the treasurer for many years. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Haitian Coffee Co. He was active in many civic organizations including the Metropolitan YMCA.
Date:
[circa 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cloud's Studio, L. A.
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bowdoin family, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Byrd Expedition sailmaker, Martin Ronne, points to a knot, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Martin Ronne, sailmaker of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, stands at center and poses with a nautical knot. He smiles to camera as he holds and points to a knot to the right of him. Behind Ronne, ship equipment lies strewn across the deck of the C. A. Larsen. A large ship cabin rises behind Ronne at left and a mast passes overhead. The Port of Los Angeles is visible in the far distance.
Date:
[circa October 9, 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Byrd Expedition sailmaker, Martin Ronne, points to a knot, Los Angeles, 1928

California Writers' Guild meeting participants, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Group portrait of Los Angeles Times columnist Lee Shippey and Occidental College president Remsen D. Bird, standing, Bird's arm around Shippey's shoulders, and novelist Louis Dodge, poet Robert Frost, and poet Marshall Louis Mertins, seated on porch wall, Dodge holding cigar and hat, Frost holding book, all in suits and ties, outdoors with building in background
Date:
September 27, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
California Writers' Guild meeting participants, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1932