Genre: group portraits / Names: Houston, Norman O. (Norman Oliver), 1893-1981 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Charlotta Bass (2nd from left), Norman O. Houston (center) with two other men and another woman at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building, probably after its completion in 1949.
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of XI Boulé members with their wives at a gathering at Moulin Rouge. Identified persons include: Norman O. Houston (front row, center), Ivan J. Johnson (front row, right), and Drs. John and Vada Somerville (upper left with Vada in a white hat). The Moulin Rouge was located at 6230 Sunset Boulevard.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: August 1-4, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of five African American men in uniforms, seated on a park bench, during WWI duty in France.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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