Genre: Portrait photographs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American wearing a pearl necklace, drop earrings, white ruffle top, and glasses.
Date:: [1910-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity was established on the campus of UCLA in 1924.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Vivian Osborne Marsh, posing for a photograph standing outside of a building.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Rex Ingram graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in medicine before launching a brilliant acting career which spanned 50 years. Ingram also appeared on the Broadway stage and in television productions, bringing skill and dignity to every performance. He is probably best remembered for his portrayal of Jim, the fugitive slave, opposite Mickey Rooney in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939). He later opened the Club Alabam in the Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Norman O. Houston wearing a military uniform.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She also was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of what was known as his Black Cabinet.
Date:: February 28, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Helena Hester Harper Coates, wearing a beaded 1920s style dress and an embroidered shawl.
Date:: [circa 1925-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of the Cushnie family with parents Amy and George Cushnie and Eugenia.
Date:: [circa 1914]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Meyer, E. L.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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