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Pio Pico Adobe, Whittier (copy photo 1930-1989)

Description:: Exterior view of the Pio Pico Adobe in a state of dilapidation.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Robert Curry Owens American craftsman style residence on Albany St., Los Angeles, 1909

Description:: Interior of the Robert Curry Owens house on Albany St., with decorative woodwork and American Indian rugs.
Date:: 1909
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Portrait of a young African American woman, early 1900s

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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Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Boardinghouse owned by Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1888

Description:: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Date:: 1888
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Certificate of Discharge for Private James Tribble, who served in the Colored Infantry during the Civil War

Description:: Private James Tribble served in the Colored Infantry, Company 6, 66th Regiment, during the Civil War. He enlisted on December 20, 1863 in Vicksburg, Mississippi and is listed as a farmer. He mustered out on March 20, 1865 in Natchez, Mississippi. He is honored on Plaque C-76 African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC. He died December 31, 1892 and is buried in the Union Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Vivian Osborne Marsh and three others at a formal event, 1950-1970

Description:: Vivian Osborne Marsh was born in Houston, Texas, and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley campus’ Kappa Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She went on to found several other chapters. Two major projects that she organized were the Traveling Library, which provided books to rural portions of Georgia, and Teen Lift, which provided opportunities for underprivileged teenagers to visit events such as symphonies and operas. She was involved in many civic organizations. On February 21, 1981, the mayor of Berkeley honored her contributions by declaring it to be Vivian Osborne Marsh Day.
Date:: [1950-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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House owned by the Owens family, First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, 1870

Description:: Exterior view of the house of Robert Owens, Sr., with a fence on the left and a picket fence in front with a woman seated on the porch. Seen from the unpaved street.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community. She was the first Black school board member and she worked for the Los Angeles Housing authority.
Date:: February 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ralph Bunche with an unidentified man in an office, 1960-1965

Description:: Ralph Bunche (left) holding a document for a seated man in an office.
Date:: [1960-1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Juanita Ellsworth Miller and others, probably an NAACP event, Los Angeles, 1964

Description:: Juanita Ellsworth Miller was the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare for the State of California, a chartered member of the Allied Arts League and a life member of the NAACP. She was married to judge Loren Miller.
Date:: February 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Grave site of Mary Ellen Pleasant, Napa, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:: Grave site of Mary Ellen Pleasant, in the Tulocay Cemetery in Napa.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Artist standing in front of a painting, 1950-1989

Description:: Photograph of an unidentified African descent artist standing next to a painting hanging on a wall, probably at an exhibition, probably in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Tom Bradley (probably), Loren Miller and one other man at the Democratic Convention, Los Angeles, 1960

Description:: Tom Bradley (probably, left), Loren Miller (center) and one other man at the Democratic Convention.
Date:: July 7, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Children on the front steps of Helen Hunt Jackson Branch Library, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Ten school age girls of different ethnic backgrounds are standing on the steps in front of the main entrance of Helen Hunt Jackson Benach Library. One girl is holding a large book entitled Mother Goose.
Date:: May 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Elmer Bartlett playing the pipe organ at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Elmer Bartlett was a highly acclaimed choir director and organist. Churches where he worked in include the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. He received several awards in the course of his career including first prize for directing the Los Angeles AME's choir at a 1926 choir competition at the Hollywood Bowl. By 1940 he had moved to Elgin Illinois. He continued to direct choirs and play the organ for various A.M.E. churches.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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
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Santa Susana Pass, east side, Los Angeles County, circa 1895

Description:: The Santa Susana Pass is a low mountain pass in the Simi Hills of Southern California, connecting San Fernando Valley to Simi Valley. It was used by Native American tribes for around 8,000 years. Use by Europeans started with the Portola Expedition (1769-1770), by Franciscans to travel from the San Fernando Mission the San Buenaventura, and by San Fernando rancheros after 1834 secularization. A wagon trail was created, and, in 1917, a road was built.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Pio Pico Adobe, Whittier (copy photo 1930-1989)

Robert Curry Owens American craftsman style residence on Albany St., Los Angeles, 1909

Portrait of a young African American woman, early 1900s

Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920

Boardinghouse owned by Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1888

Certificate of Discharge for Private James Tribble, who served in the Colored Infantry during the Civil War

Vivian Osborne Marsh and three others at a formal event, 1950-1970

House owned by the Owens family, First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, 1870

Group portrait at the presentation of the plaque honoring Biddy Mason at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 1957

Ralph Bunche with an unidentified man in an office, 1960-1965

Juanita Ellsworth Miller and others, probably an NAACP event, Los Angeles, 1964

Grave site of Mary Ellen Pleasant, Napa, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Artist standing in front of a painting, 1950-1989

Tom Bradley (probably), Loren Miller and one other man at the Democratic Convention, Los Angeles, 1960

Children on the front steps of Helen Hunt Jackson Branch Library, Los Angeles, 1934

Elmer Bartlett playing the pipe organ at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1920s

William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978

Santa Susana Pass, east side, Los Angeles County, circa 1895

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