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Description:: Chester Williams standing with tennis racket in a garden with an arbor.
Date:: [1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of 11 girls and boys posed in a semi-circle and pointing towards one another, wearing stage costumes.
Date:: [1920-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Two story commercial building with a Spanish style roof tile accent and relief medallions, on the corner of Griffith Avenue and East 16th Street. The sign reading "Bob's Meat Market" is topped by a "Coca-Cola" logo. The house of Margaret and John M. Scott, at 1011 E. 16th St. is visible beyond the building.
Date:: [1930-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Hamilton M. E. Church of Los Angeles was formed in 1904. It was originally named the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and changed the name in 1952 to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Historically, the church denomination was a trailblazer in their support of women’s professional development and leadership roles in organizing church missions and in the ministry. The church has its roots in evangelicalism, and has maintained that connection throughout its history.
Date:: [1930-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Country home of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig at Val Verde.
Date:: [1930s-1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Alice Watkins Garrott was a dentist who married dentist. Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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