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Leon F. Marsh, Sr., at a dinner honoring him for 50 years of Lodge work, Oakland, 1967

Description:
Dinner honoring Leon F. Marsh, Sr. (seated) for fifty years of Lodge work. He is shown with his wife, Vivian Osborne Marsh (seated), and his grandchildren from his first marriage to Viola Marsh: Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Frederick Marsh (grandson and wife, on the left), and Dwight Colbert and Leslie Marsh Colbert (granddaughter, on the right).
Date:
October 24, 1967
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Leon F. Marsh, Sr., at a dinner honoring him for 50 years of Lodge work, Oakland, 1967

Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)

Description:
Gathering of Garrott and DeJarnette (or De Jarnette) families. Standing, back row: Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott (?): center; second row, seated, from left: 1) Helen Duncan Garrott, 2) Willa Garrott, 3) Fannie James (wife of James Garrott, Sr.), 6) Mable Dejarnette Keenan, 7) Alice Dejarnette Hooper.
Date:
[1940s (?)]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)

Dr. Vada Somerville with two other women, circa 1940s

Description:
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:
[1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville with two other women, circa 1940s

Emma P. Barrett Boyd with friends at 124 E. 4th St, Los Angeles, circa 1895

Description:
Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947.
Date:
[circa 1895]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Emma P. Barrett Boyd with friends at 124 E. 4th St, Los Angeles, circa 1895

Samuel John Booth, mason and successful gold prospector, British Columbia, 1880-1900

Description:
Samuel John Booth was a resident of Victoria, B.C., from c. 1858 to 1917. One of four black prospectors who formed a company to mine gold at Leechtown (Leech River) in 1864, he became quite prosperous. The regalia that he wears is probably American and may not even be masonic. It is not the style of regalia worn in the jurisdiction of British Columbia and there is no record of his membership in Grand Lodge records. There was also no masonic affiliation noted in his obituary. It is probable that he was a member of a Prince Hall lodge before he moved to Victoria. [http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/booth_s/booth_s.html]
Date:
[1880-1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Samuel John Booth, mason and successful gold prospector, British Columbia, 1880-1900

Portraits of the members of the United States Grand Jury, July Term 1878, including an African American named David W. Ruggles

Description:
Twenty two portraits of the members of the United States Grand Jury, July Term 1878 (top to bottom, left to right:): N. G. Kittle, James Carolan, G. L. Taylor, S. C. Bigelow, John Spaulding, Henry Payot, W. F. Swasey (Secretary), Charles L. Dingley, Henry L. Davis, Thomas L. Taylor, Sol. Wangenheim, D. S. Bachman, Wallace Everson, George P. Bragg, George B. Knowles, Nathaniel Gray, Thomas Houseworth, Abram D. Clark, Robert K. Patridge, Joseph Elfelt, and David W. Ruggles.
Date:
1878
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Portraits of the members of the United States Grand Jury, July Term 1878, including an African American named David W. Ruggles

Noble Johnson, circa 1915

Description:
Noble Johnson was a character actor in cinema, one of the few African Americans in the field during the studio era. A childhood friend of Lon Chaney, Johnson followed him into the industry in 1915. He was an extra in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) as a Babylonian soldier. Because of his large size 6'2″, 215 lbs., Johnson was often cast in key character roles representing not just African Americans, but Native Americans, Asians, Arabians, and Pacific Islanders. Johnson founded Lincoln Motion Picture Company, the first American studio that produced “race” films, pictures for African Americans, exclusively, from 1916 to 1923. He continued to work in the sound era, retiring at the age of 69.
Date:
[circa 1915
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Noble Johnson, circa 1915

Dr. John A. Somerville and three couples standing in a yard, 1950s

Description:
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. John A. Somerville and three couples standing in a yard, 1950s

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

Dr. Vada Somerville receives an award from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles, 1960s

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:
[1960s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville receives an award from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles, 1960s

Fiftieth wedding anniversary of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles, 1962

Description:
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:
October 16, 1962
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Fiftieth wedding anniversary of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles, 1962

Dr. Vada Somerville, circa 1940s

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:
[1940-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville, circa 1940s

Portraits of Vivian Osborne Marsh and 15 others in "The Crisis" magazine, 1922

Description:
Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Date:
May 1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Portraits of Vivian Osborne Marsh and 15 others in "The Crisis" magazine, 1922

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

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

Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Description:
Eugene M. Brown was the regional agent of the State Emergency Relief Administration for Los Angeles County, and was charged, along with several others, with conspiracy to defraud the government in 1934. He was also the executive secretary for the Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission. Charges were eventually dismissed.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Description:
Arthur Burnside Dodge was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and his family moved to California in 1864. For ten they lived in Grass Valley, then settled in San Francisco. There he began his career as a wood engraver at age 18 and spent five years in New York City studying art. Upon returning to San Francisco, he was an illustrator for local newspapers from 1890 until 1901. He then moved to Los Angeles where he continued newspaper work. After four years at the Morning Herald, he spent 42 years as art director at the Los Angeles Times. Known as "Boss" to his friends, he died in Los Angeles in 1952.
Date:
[circa May 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Harry H. Streshly poses with an envelope addressed to Santa Claus, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At right, Harry H. Streshler sits behind his desk and smiles to camera as he holds up an envelope addressed to Santa Claus. The envelope appears to have been rerouted back to Los Angeles. Markings on the envelope read, "Santa Claus, North Pole," "AFTER 5 DAYS, RETURN TO [...] LOS ANGELES, CALIF.," "LOS ANGELES, CALIF NOV 26 12 M 1935," and "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR [POSTMA]STER." H. H. Streshly rests his elbow to the his desk, which sits at left and stretches straight back. In the background, a map hangs from the wall at left and a door stretches alongside the right edge.
Date:
December 2, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harry H. Streshly poses with an envelope addressed to Santa Claus, Los Angeles, 1935