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Two African American couples standing on a walkway at Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920

Description:
Two couples on a boardwalk at Bruce's Beach, including a young woman in checked skirt and oversized waistcoat, with a large hat, a man in a black blazer, white pants and hat, a woman in white dress suit and white hat, and a tall man in a dark suit with his hands in his pockets.
Date:
[circa 1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Two African American couples standing on a walkway at Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hotel Somerville (later the Dunbar Hotel), Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[circa 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hotel Somerville (later the Dunbar Hotel), Los Angeles, circa 1928

Kenneth Hahn at an oath ceremony for Henry Davis, Dr. Vada Somerville and Wesley Brazier, Los Angeles, 1963

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
August 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Kenneth Hahn at an oath ceremony for Henry Davis, Dr. Vada Somerville and Wesley Brazier, Los Angeles, 1963

African American coach driver for a Pacific Creamery Co. carriage, 1905

Description:
Pacific Creamery Co., located in Buena Park produced Lilly Cream Ice Cream. Buena Park first became known as a dairy center, and both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads built depots to transport merchandise. The Lily Creamery started operations in Buena Park in 1889. With the exception of a few wineries, the creamery was the first industry in the city. The Pacific Creamery Plant was sold in 1927, and it operated under the Borden Milk Co. Creamery and Ice Factory name until its closure in 1953.
Date:
1905
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
African American coach driver for a Pacific Creamery Co. carriage, 1905

Robert Gaylord seated in a decorated automobile in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1901

Description:
Image depicting an early model automobile covered with foliage. Robert Gaylord (possibly African American) is in the driver's seat of a Milwaukee horseless carriage, dressed in a suit and cap. The car is in a driveway with a house in the background. This was the first year that there were automobiles in the Tournament of Roses parade.
Date:
January 01, 1901
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Robert Gaylord seated in a decorated automobile in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1901

Hotel Somerville (later the Dunbar Hotel), Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[circa 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Hotel Somerville (later the Dunbar Hotel), Los Angeles, circa 1928

Poster for the dance performance season of the Back Bay Theatre with a photograph of Carmen De Lavallade, 1967

Description:
Carmen de Lavallade is an American actress, dancer and choreographer. In 2004, de Lavallade received the Black History Month Lifetime Achievement Award, and December 2017 she received the Kennedy Center Honors Award. She is the cousin of ballet dancer Janet Collins.
Date:
1967
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Poster for the dance performance season of the Back Bay Theatre with a photograph of Carmen De Lavallade, 1967

Ribbon cutting ceremony for English Square office building, Los Angeles, 1964

Description:
Attorney General Stanley Mosk (3rd from right) ready to cut the ribbon for English Square office complex at 85th and Broadway, with the owner, attorney Herman English, and his wife, Eula (right), and (from left): Reverend W. L. Robinson, Attorney Loren Miller, emcee; and Councilman Billy Mills and his wife, Rubye.
Date:
February 19, 1964
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ribbon cutting ceremony for English Square office building, Los Angeles, 1964

Reverend A. Milton Ward with his wife, Lydia Ward, and others at First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1919-1924

Description:
Group photograph with Reverend A. Milton Ward and his wife, Lydia Ward (2nd and 3rd from left), deaconesses Lettie Beverly (left) and Minnie Tucker (right) and about 54 members of the choir of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church at 8th St. and Logan Ave. The pipes of the church organ are in the background.
Date:
[between 1919-1924]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
The Two Friends Photography and Poetic Novelty Literature (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Reverend A. Milton Ward with his wife, Lydia Ward, and others at First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1919-1924

R. C. O. Benjamin and Dr. Monroe Majors portrayed as intellectuals, circa 1880-1900

Description:
Born on St. Kitts, R. C. O. (Robert Charles O'Hara) Benjamin attended Trinity College in Oxford, Virginia, became a U. S. citizen in the 1870s, taught school in Kentucky, was a lawyer and may have been admitted to the bar in 12 states, was a journalist, author, and poet, a civil rights activist and a public speaker. He attained many other achievements. He may have been the first person of African descent to pass the bar in California. He was murdered in 1900 in Lexington while helping blacks to register to vote.
Date:
[1880-1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
R. C. O. Benjamin and Dr. Monroe Majors portrayed as intellectuals, circa 1880-1900

Leidersdorff Street at the intersection with Commercial, San Francisco, circa 1978 (?)

Description:
Born on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1810, William Leidesdorff was the son of Danish sugar planter Alexander Leidesdorff and Anna Marie Sparks, a light-skinned woman of mixed race ancestry. In 1841 Leidesdorff settled in the Mexican village of Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay. Over the next three years he became a successful merchant by making frequent trips between California, Mexico and Hawaii. In 1844 governor Micheltorena confirmed his land grant of 35,000 acres on the American River. Ranch Rio de Los Americanos was located near the spot where James Marshall discovered gold in January 1848. When Leidesdorff died unexpectedly in May 1848 he was buried inside Mission Dolores Church. Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American diplomat. He was elected to San Francisco’s first city council and its first school board in 1847. He built the first hotel, the first shipping warehouse, he operated the first steamboat on San Francisco Bay, and he laid out the first horse race track in California
Date:
[circa 1978 (?)]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Leidersdorff Street at the intersection with Commercial, San Francisco, circa 1978 (?)

Two images: Arvilla Knight and Ella Blodgett; Louis M. Blodgett, Arvilla Knight, and Goodwin Knight, circa 1950

Description:
Two photographs, left: Arvilla Goodwin (wife of Goodwin Knight) and Ella Blodgett (wife of Louis M. Blodgett); right: Louis M. Blodgett ( the contractor who built the first for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance in 1928, president of f Liberty Savings and Loan), Arvilla Knight, and California Governor Goodwin Knight.
Date:
[circa 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Two images: Arvilla Knight and Ella Blodgett; Louis M. Blodgett, Arvilla Knight, and Goodwin Knight, circa 1950

Franz Hall II (Psychology Tower) at University of California by Paul R. Williams, Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.), circa 1967

Description:
Paul Williams was an African American architect who designed almost 2,000 homes in the Los Angeles area. He worked for wealthy celebrity clients, but also designed affordable homes, public housing, and civic, commercial, and institutional buildings. His works exhibit elegant composition and perfect proportion.
Date:
[circa 1967]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Franz Hall II (Psychology Tower) at University of California by Paul R. Williams, Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.), circa 1967

Noble Johnson, 1915-1920

Description:
Noble Johnson was a character actor in cinema, one of the few African Americans in the field during the studio era. A childhood friend of Lon Chaney, Johnson followed him into the industry in 1915. He was an extra in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) as a Babylonian soldier. Because of his large size 6'2″, 215 lbs., Johnson was often cast in key character roles representing not just African Americans, but Native Americans, Asians, Arabians, and Pacific Islanders. Johnson founded Lincoln Motion Picture Company, the first American studio that produced “race” films, pictures for African Americans, exclusively, from 1916 to 1923. He continued to work in the sound era, retiring at the age of 69.
Date:
[1915-1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Noble Johnson, 1915-1920

Charlotta Bass greeted by children at the Palace of Fine Arts, Tbilisi (Georgia), 1950

Description:
A note on the back of the photograph in the University of Southern California collection reads: Belisi (sic) children brought flowers and danced and sang; Palace of Fine Arts in Georgia; one of most beautiful seen in Russia; was the Palace of the Czars." Bass visited Tbilisi and several other European cities, including Moscow and Prague, in 1950.
Date:
1950
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Charlotta Bass greeted by children at the Palace of Fine Arts, Tbilisi (Georgia), 1950

Drs. Vada and John Somerville with twenty-six others at an unidentified event, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Drs. Vada and John Somerville with twenty-six others at an unidentified event, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

Adobe dwelling on the land of the original Rancho Rodeo de las Agua land grant, now Beverly Hills, 1920

Description:
After the session of California to the United States, the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas land grant was patented to Maria Rita Valdez de Villa. She possessed the land from 1831 to 1854. After that, the property changed hands several times before becoming Beverly Hills in the early 20th century.
Date:
1920
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Adobe dwelling on the land of the original Rancho Rodeo de las Agua land grant, now Beverly Hills, 1920