Genre: drawings / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection and OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Portrait drawing of Louis M. Blodgett, a contractor. Blodgett constructed the first building for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance in 1928. The building still stands at 4261 S. Central Ave.
Date:: [between 1928-1947]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. Born in Guadeloupe, he was the son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a wealthy planter, and Nanon, his African slave. During the French Revolution, Saint-Georges was colonel of the Légion St.-Georges, the first all-black regiment in Europe, fighting on the side of the Republic. Today the Chevalier de Saint-Georges is best remembered as the first classical composer of African ancestry. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [undated]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A drawing of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo depicts the grounds as they appeared in November 1792. From A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World by Captain George Vancouver (1798).
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The foundation for the Plaza Church was laid in 1814. It was formerly known as the church of Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles (Our Lady, Queen of the Angels).
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Antheil, Peter
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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