Genre: group portraits - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Four children pose together underneath a leafy tree. Part of a home is visible in the background. Half of the image is blacked out.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Ralph D. Cornell family including: landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell, wife Ruth Iva Cornell, daughter Rosita Dee Cornell and two older women (one of which is probably Maude Cornell, Ralph's mother) gathered in front of Blueblossom (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus) bushes.
Date:: March 20, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Ruth Cornell, wife of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell, holding their daughter Rosita
Date:: July 12, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Lou Rawls was an African American singer and songwriter known for his baritone voice and acting roles. He won Grammy Award (1967).
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description:: Norman O. Houston was the president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, at one time the largest black-owned business west of the Mississippi.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description:: Bernard Gray was a realtor for Miracle Mortgage Service in Carson. He also served as an officer and reverend at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, and was a master at the Thomas Waller Masonic Lodge #49.
Date:: December 21, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description:: The 317th Engineers was first constituted on 24 October 1917 and organized at Camp Sherman, Ohio as the 317th Engineer Regiment, 92nd Division. Like the rest of the 92nd Division, the 317th Engineers was an all black, or “Negro troops” unit, with many of the NCOs coming from the 9th and 10th Cavalry. The 317th Engineers sailed for France in June 1918, and it was the first unit of the 92nd Division to enter the line, completing the relief of the 7th Engineers on 23 August 1918. The unit earned campaign streamers for the Meuse-Argonne and Lorraine campaigns supporting the 92nd Division and the 1st Army Corps. After the war, the 317th was demobilized 31 March 1919. [http://www.317thengineers.com/history]
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Santee
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American family with a daughter (aged 9-11), and a son (aged 4-7), standing behind a table with a floral arrangement.
Date:: [1940-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description:: William M. Dunn joined the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 10th cavalry in 1898. He served in Cuba and Philippines, fought Indians in Wyoming, and in the Spanish-American War. He moved to Los Angeles in 1910 and the 1940 Census lists him as a realtor.
Date:: November 18, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

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).
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

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