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Description:: Actress Beulah Hall with members of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, left to right: Clarence Brooks (secretary), Noble Johnson (president), Dudley Brooks (assistant secretary), and Dr. James Smith (treasurer). They are standing in front of a picket fence and a building with wood siding.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:: December 13, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Police officer Frank White stands next to an early model car in front of his house. He wears a fedora hat. There is a wood frame house in the background with palm trees on either side. This may be the address listed in the 1920 census at 1725 W. 35th Place.
Date:: [1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Bessie Coleman was an African American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent to hold a civilian pilot license. Due to discrimination against blacks in the U. S., she traveled to Paris in, 1920 to learn to fly and earn an international pilot's license. She then returned to the United States in 1921 and became a "barnstorming" stunt flier. "Queen Bess," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years. She was a speaker, was often interviewed by newspapers, and she was admired by both blacks and whites. In 1926 Coleman died in a tragic airplane accident. She was 34 years old.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still conducting with his baton raised. The acoustic tiles on the wall behind suggest that he is in a recording studio.
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Two unidentified African American women wearing coats, standing on a landing overlooking a beach with a wooden pier in the background.
Date:: [1900s-1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mamie Virginia Cunningham White was the first African American clerk in the Los Angeles Post Office, and became an early real estate broker in Los Angeles and headed the city's first negro employment agency.
Date:: Summer 1905
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of a mountain pass, possibly the Cahuenga pass, with two people riding bicycles. The Cahuenga Pass connects the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley via U.S. Route 101 (Hollywood Freeway).
Date:: [1870-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Johnny Riddle in a football uniform on page 73 of the University of Southern California 1925 yearbook.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Nate Harrison was born in the American South during the 1820s or 30s. He migrated to California during the Gold Rush, eventually settled on Mount Palomar. He was the first African American homesteader in the area and occupied his homestead from approximately 1856 to 1919. His homestead included a cabin, a patio and an orchard. He had many visitors, and ran a small cottage industry raising sheep, and processing wool and animal hides.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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