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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
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Description:: Studio portrait of Emilie Pickens and her sons Richard (left) and William.
Date:: [circa 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: July 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Anna Dugged Owens seated next to a side table with flowers on the top.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
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:: [1950s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wiley Hinds was a wealthy California rancher and farmer in the area of Kaweah and Mineral King, in Tulare County. His daughter, Pearl, married Frederick Madison Roberts.
Date:: [1890s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Halroy Candis "Hal" Williams is an African American actor, best known for his recurring role as Police Officer Smith ("Smitty") on Sanford and Son and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs' character, on 227.
Date:: March 14, 1985
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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