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Description:: Street scene of West 35th Street, between Western Boulevard and Denker Avenue. Four dwellings, in a row, are in the Arts and Crafts/California Bungalow style. The first house is at 1678 W 35th. St.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. Born in Guadeloupe, he was the son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a wealthy planter, and Nanon, his African slave. During the French Revolution, Saint-Georges was colonel of the Légion St.-Georges, the first all-black regiment in Europe, fighting on the side of the Republic. Today the Chevalier de Saint-Georges is best remembered as the first classical composer of African ancestry. [Wikipedia]
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group of seven children (11-15 years old) playing various musical instruments including saxophones, a piano, and a drum. More older children look in from a doorway. This is probably in the area of Central Avenue.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Seven African American horsemen in official military uniforms at the Los Angeles Fiesta Parade. In the background is a flower-decorated float.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Grafton Tyler Brown was an African American who artist worked as a lithographer, cartographer and landscape painter capturing images of landscapes in the northwest United States, and British Columbia.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Theodore Johnson standing in front of a tree and holding a photograph of a track and field athlete (?). Johnson was probably related to Ivan J. Johnson.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of an unidentified African American man. Possibly an artist.
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Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Includes Miriam McCard Rogers, Owen Johnson McCard, Beverly Scott McCard, and Lois McCard
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mr. and Mrs. William Beck standing outside of a shack with planting boxes and potted plants on the ground around them.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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