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Description:: Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century.
Date:: [1930-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Edwin Coates (Charles Edwin Coates) was a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music in New York. In 1917, he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, which was founded and directed by Frank Heino Damrosch, and which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School. In 1938 he married social worker Helena Hester Harper, the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies.
Date:: [1940-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ivan Browning was an African American entertainer known for his singing, and acting. He was the lead tenor in the Four Harmony Kings signing group. During the 1920s the group traveled throughout Europe. He and his wife, Maurine Moss Browning, lived in England for several years. The Brownings later did a tour in the United States with Maurine accompanying him on the piano.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Emily Brown Childress Portwig was a Los Angeles pharmacist and civic leader. She married Anderson V. Childress in 1909. She was widowed by 1930. She was married to James Rufus Portwig in 1933.
Date:: [1930s-1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Palmer van Gundy was an active member of the Church of Christian Fellowship, the Executive Director of the local, Los Angeles FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Committee) in 1947, involved in local church music events, and was a frequent contributor to the letters to the editor section of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1967 to 1986.
Date:: July 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mabel Gray was a civic leader in Los Angeles who worked with many charity organizations and held several posts in the National Association of Colored Women.
Date:: [1940s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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