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Over 100 African American youth in a school marching band, Columbus, 1960-1990

Description:
View of about one hundred school age African American youths in a marching band posing for a group photograph on a lawn. There are fifteen majorettes; two drum majors and an assortment of woodwind, brass, and drum musicians. The photo was taken at night.
Date:
[1960-1990]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Firestone Photographics, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio)
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Over 100 African American youth in a school marching band, Columbus, 1960-1990

Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Engraved image of the New World Market, located at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial Streets, San Francisco, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:
Born on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1810, William Leidesdorff was the son of Danish sugar planter Alexander Leidesdorff and Anna Marie Sparks, a light-skinned woman of mixed race ancestry. In 1841 Leidesdorff settled in the Mexican village of Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay. Over the next three years he became a successful merchant by making frequent trips between California, Mexico and Hawaii. In 1844 governor Micheltorena confirmed his land grant of 35,000 acres on the American River. Ranch Rio de Los Americanos was located near the spot where James Marshall discovered gold in January 1848. When Leidesdorff died unexpectedly in May 1848 he was buried inside Mission Dolores Church. Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American diplomat. He was elected to San Francisco’s first city council and its first school board in 1847. He built the first hotel, the first shipping warehouse, he operated the first steamboat on San Francisco Bay, and he laid out the first horse race track in California
Date:
[1930-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Engraved image of the New World Market, located at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial Streets, San Francisco, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

John Biggers, 1955-1989

Description:
John Biggers was an African American artist known for his narrative murals and outstanding draftsmanship. Biggers dedicated his work to the depiction of the human condition. He drew inspiration from African art and culture, from the injustices of a segregated United States, from the stoic women of his own family, and from the heroism of everyday survival. His work continually evolved over the five decades of his career.
Date:
[1955-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
John Biggers, 1955-1989

House of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:
Los Angeles home of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, at 1549 W. 35th St. in Los Angeles. Because of Mr. Portwig's Naval career, they name the house "The Anchor" and it was the gathering place for the younger social set called the "Anchorettes."
Date:
[1930-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Adair Photo L.A.
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
House of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Five Prince Hall Freemasonry Masonic Lodges in California, including Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Pasadena, and San Francisco, 1940-1989

Description:
Photographic montage with images of five Prince Hall Masonic lodges in California, each one with a distinctive architectural style: Prince Hall Masonic Temple (1050 E. 50th St., Los Angeles), Orange Valley Lodge Hall (2931 12th St, Riverside), Fidelity Lodge Hall, (3007 Logan Ave, San Diego), Hannibal Lodge Hall (2804 Bush Street San Francisco), and Masonic Hall, Pasadena.
Date:
[1945-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Five Prince Hall Freemasonry Masonic Lodges in California, including Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Pasadena, and San Francisco, 1940-1989

William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978

Description:
Vilem Sokol was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985, where he taught violin, viola, and conducting, as well as music appreciation classes directed primarily toward non-music majors. He was conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra from 1960 to 1988, and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963. [Wikipedia]
Date:
[1970-1978]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978