Genre: photographs / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection and OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ysidro Reyes, son of Juan Francisco Reyes, acquired half of the Mexican Land Grant called the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica (present day Santa Monica Canyon, the Pacific Palisades, and parts of Topanga Canyon).
Date:: [circa 1853-1861]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: African American children and youths working on various projects at tables in a room as participants in a work program of the National Youth Administration.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: African American woman wearing a dark-colored dress, standing in front of bushes, next to a car tire, with a house in the background.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: View of an African American man with each arm wrapped around and two women dressed in swimsuits. They are standing knee-deep in a lake or stream.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: A young African American girl in a light-colored eyelet cotton fabric dress and stockings stands in a lawn in front of a tropical plant.
Date:: [1910-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wiley Hinds was a wealthy California rancher and farmer in the area of Kaweah and Mineral King, in Tulare County. His daughter, Pearl, married Frederick Madison Roberts.
Date:: [1880s-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The current Woodrow Wilson High School campus and buildings were designed by the renowned African American architect Paul R. Williams. It was an engineering challenge to excavate over one million cubic yards of earth to re-grade the hilltop and to use 3,500 tons of structural steel for the main buildings. The new Wilson High was the first LAUSD school to implement multi-floored buildings equipped with elevators and escalators to accommodate students with disabilities.
Date:: [1968-1969]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Deckled edge photograph of an African American (?) woman wearing a print dress standing in front of a house.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: African American woman standing in front of a Spanish style house or apartment building wearing a white top, striped skirt, and a corsage.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: African American woman wearing a suit and hat, standing in front of a Spanish style building.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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