Genre: group portraits / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections / Names: Matthews, Miriam - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Miriam Matthews was hired as the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library in 1927. Matthews was also a civil rights activist, historian, and collector of African American art and primary source materials. She was the sister of businesswoman Ella Matthews and lawyer Charles Matthews
Date:: [1922-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photographs appear in "Deltas Celebrate 57th Founders Anniversary," Los Angeles Sentinel 29 Jan. 1970: C3.
Date:: January 24, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Vivian "Vina" Johnson was the president of the League of Allied Arts for many years.
Date:: [1925-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Founders of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at a Founders Luncheon held at the Proud Bird Restaurant. Left to right: Miriam Matthews, Portia Broyles Griffith, Roena Muckelroy Savage, Juanita Miller, and Hebe Mack Robinson.
Date:: January 24, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of 7 past western regional directors of Six Delta Sigma Theta Sorority standing in front of a curtain, including Miriam Matthews (3rd from left).
Date:: January 1972
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Hebe Mack Robinson was the first Black woman probation officer in Los Angeles County.
Date:: January 1972
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group photo of the hostesses for the Haitian Olympic Team in Los Angeles, 1932. Seated, from left: Edith Keyser White; Nella R Blodgett (wife of Louis M. Blodgett); and Miriam Matthews. Standing from left: Kathryn Kinsey; Dr. Anna J. Leggett; Aurora Slater Hoskins; wife of the Haitian counsel; the Haitian Counsel; Lillian M. Tyler (wife of Willis O. Tyler); Helen Louise Wheeler Riddle (wife of John Riddle); Dr. Vada J. Somerville; Mattie Scott Nelson, and Arsine E. Gordon (wife of Dr. G.B.D. Gordon) Inset, Haitian Olympic team members (left to right): Silvio Cator and André Théard.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Studio of Smith, L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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