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

Ysidro Reyes, half-owner of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes, circa 1853-1861

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
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Youths participating in the National Youth Administration Work Program, Riverside, 1938

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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Young woman, 1940s-1950s

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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Young man and two women swimming, 1920s

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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Young girl, friend of the Matthews family 1910-1930..]

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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Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team, Visalia vicinity (?), 1880s-1890s

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
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Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

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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Woman standing in front of a house, 1940s-1950s

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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Woman standing in front of a building, 1940s

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
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Woman standing in front of a building, 1940s

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
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Woman in front of a house, 1860-1915

Description:: Elderly woman standing in front of stairs and porch of a wood frame house.
Date:: [1860-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Roberts, A. J. Roberts and Frederick Roberts on the steps of A. J. Roberts son & Co funeral home, Los Angeles, 1905-1915

Description:: A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:: [circa 1905-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Pajaud with Melonee Blocker at an art exhibition at Family Savings and Loan Association, Los Angeles, 1964

Description:: Melonie Blocker was an artist and a member of the League of Allied Arts.
Date:: March 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Pajaud, circa 1968

Description:: William E. Pajaud was an African-American artist known for his paintings exploring themes of jazz. Pajaud was a member of the Society of Graphic Designers, the Los Angeles County Art Association, and the National Watercolor Society, of which he served as president from 1974 to 1975. Pajaud's work was featured in "Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980" an exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
Date:: [circa 1968]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still working on a composition in his home, Los Angeles, 1960-1970

Description:: William Grant Still seated next at a piano and looking at a music score as he works on a composition.
Date:: [1960-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still with his wife, Verna Arvey, and children, Duncan and Judith, Los Angeles, circa 1944

Description:: William Grant Still standing next to a piano holding his son, Duncan, with his wife, Verna Arvey, and daughter, Judith, seated at the piano.
Date:: [circa 1944]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still lectures to school children on "The Little song that wanted to be Symphony," 1970-1978

Description:: William Grant Still lecturing to school children in the recording portion of the publication "The little song that wanted to be a symphony."
Date:: [1970-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Moore, Pryor
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, circa 1967

Description:: William Grant Still conducting a symphony orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl during the Los Angeles Birthday Fiesta.
Date:: [circa 1967]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still conducting, 1965-1978

Description:: William Grant Still conducting with his baton raised. The acoustic tiles on the wall behind suggest that he is in a recording studio.
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ysidro Reyes, half-owner of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes, circa 1853-1861

Youths participating in the National Youth Administration Work Program, Riverside, 1938

Young woman, 1940s-1950s

Young man and two women swimming, 1920s

Young girl, friend of the Matthews family 1910-1930..]

Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team, Visalia vicinity (?), 1880s-1890s

Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

Woman standing in front of a house, 1940s-1950s

Woman standing in front of a building, 1940s

Woman standing in front of a building, 1940s

Woman in front of a house, 1860-1915

William Roberts, A. J. Roberts and Frederick Roberts on the steps of A. J. Roberts son & Co funeral home, Los Angeles, 1905-1915

William Pajaud with Melonee Blocker at an art exhibition at Family Savings and Loan Association, Los Angeles, 1964

William Pajaud, circa 1968

William Grant Still working on a composition in his home, Los Angeles, 1960-1970

William Grant Still with his wife, Verna Arvey, and children, Duncan and Judith, Los Angeles, circa 1944

William Grant Still lectures to school children on "The Little song that wanted to be Symphony," 1970-1978

William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936

William Grant Still conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, circa 1967

William Grant Still conducting, 1965-1978

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