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Owen's block (right), purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Broadway side, Los Angeles, circa 1901

Description:: On November 28, 1866, Biddy Mason purchased two lots, bounded by Spring, Fort (now Broadway), 3rd and 4th Streets on the, then, outskirts of Los Angeles, for $250. Eighteen years later it was next to the city center.
Date:: [circa 1901]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Owen's block (right), purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Broadway side, Los Angeles, circa 1901

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Description:: Spring Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, facing west towards a commercial building with Exton Music Co., and other businesses
Date:: [between 1907 and 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Partial view of Los Angeles in the area of San Pedro St., from an elevation, 1869

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: May 13, 1869
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Partial view of Los Angeles in the area of San Pedro St., from an elevation, 1869

Jean De la Cour gives Biddy Mason plaque to Mason's great-great-great-granddaughter at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Jean De la Cour gives Biddy Mason plaque to Mason's great-great-great-granddaughter and Vassie Wright, President of Our Authors Study Club, and Kenny Habor look on.
Date:: February 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Jean De la Cour gives Biddy Mason plaque to Mason's great-great-great-granddaughter at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason (center, left with white collar), her daughter Ellen Mason Owens (1st from right), and others behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Owen's block (right), purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Broadway side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Description:: On November 28, 1866, Biddy Mason purchased two lots, bounded by Spring, Fort (now Broadway), 3rd and 4th Streets on the, then, outskirts of Los Angeles, for $250. Eighteen years later it was next to the city center.
Date:: [between 1907 and 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Owen's block (right), purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Broadway side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Description:: On November 28, 1866, Biddy Mason purchased two lots, bounded by Spring, Fort (now Broadway), 3rd and 4th Streets on the, then, outskirts of Los Angeles, for $250. Eighteen years later it was next to the city center.
Date:: [between 1907 and 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Description:: Spring Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, facing west towards a commercial building with Exton Music Co., and other businesses.
Date:: [between 1907 and 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Owen's block, purchased by Biddy Mason in 1866, Spring St. side, Los Angeles, 1907-1908

Partial view of Los Angeles in the area of San Pedro St., from an elevation, 1869

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: May 13, 1869
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Partial view of Los Angeles in the area of San Pedro St., from an elevation, 1869

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community. She was the first Black school board member and she worked for the Los Angeles Housing authority.
Date:: February 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957