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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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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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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:: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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