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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
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Description:: SWAHILI: Picha ya Ustadh Mau iliyopigwa hotelini inavyonyeshwa na kimanda cha chakula.<br>ENGLISH: Portrait of Ustadh Mau taken in a hotel as the hot pots in the background show.
Date:: 2018
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)

Description:: Studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a light-colored dress standing in front of a painted backdrop, next to a chair.
Date:: [1900-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photographed from a book.
Date:: n.d.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

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:: 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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Description:: Two plaques at the site of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church building at 8th St. and Towne Ave. with a pictorial image of the church building, and providing a brief history of the A.M.E. and the church's designation as a Los Angeles cultural heritage landmark, and information about the ministers of the church at that time.
Date:: December, 13, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Plaque commemorating "Los Pobladores," the 44 families of Indian, African, and European descent who founded Los Angeles, in its current location at El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park in Downtown Los Angeles. The plaque provides historical information, the names of the families, the names if individual family members and their racial background.
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of the adobe house and office of Pio Pico at the Los Angeles Plaza, south of the fountain. The passage on the south side of the Plaza was called Plaza St. On the left is Firehouse No. 1 (aka The Plaza Fire House; the address is now 105 N. Los Angeles St.).
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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