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Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Detail of a larger image: A woman and child behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason (center, left with white collar), her daughter Ellen Mason Owens (1st from right), and others behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Beverly McCard with his wife, Gertrude, his infant son, Beverly, and an elderly man, Sacramento, circa 1928

Description:: Beverly McCard with his wife, Gertrude, his infant son, Beverly, and an elderly man on the steps of the house of the caterer Beverly Johnson.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Beverly A. Johnson family members on the front steps of a house, Sacramento, 1890-1910

Description:: Beverly A. Johnson was a caterer in Sacramento. He and his wife, Rachael, had five children: Ernest H. Johnson, the first African American student at Stanford University; Helena Theresa Johnson Harper; Belle Johnson Butler; and Louise V. Johnson McCard; Harry L. Johnson.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Beulah Woodard standing beside her work "Biddy Mason" facing two unidentified women, circa 1949

Description:: Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Betye Saar and Alison Saar at their exhibition "Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar" at the UCLA Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, circa 1990

Description:: Alison Saar is an African American artist who seeks to clearly communicate her ideas and emotions through the power of form. Her sculptures have their own personal vocabulary that speaks in a direct language about history, race, and mythology. Her works tell the stories of the African American experience over time and space. She is the daughter of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Date:: [circa 1990]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gray, Todd, 1954-
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bethel A.M.E. Church, Fresno, 1916-1917

Description:: Exterior view of the Bethel A.M.E. Church, a wood frame building.
Date:: 1916-1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, circa 1922

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing in an air field wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, 1920-1926

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing on the wheel of an airplane, wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:: Bessie Coleman was an African American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent to hold a civilian pilot license. Due to discrimination against blacks in the U. S., she traveled to Paris in, 1920 to learn to fly and earn an international pilot's license. She then returned to the United States in 1921 and became a "barnstorming" stunt flier. "Queen Bess," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years. She was a speaker, was often interviewed by newspapers, and she was admired by both blacks and whites. In 1926 Coleman died in a tragic airplane accident. She was 34 years old.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing alongside a plane in a field. Next to her is an unidentified male pilot. Coleman is wearing a leather pilot's cap, goggles and a jacket. .
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:: Studio portrait of Bessie Coleman.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing next to a airplane propeller. She is wearing air pilot clothing, including a flying cap, a jacket and knickerbockers, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:: Studio portrait of Bessie Coleman. She is wear a leather flight cap and goggles.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bessie Bruington Burke and the Cunningham family members at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach, 1920s

Description:: Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:: [1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bert McDonald, attorney, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Studio portrait of Bert McDonald as a young man, wearing a suit.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Tivoli LA
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Berthella Glenn Brooks, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Description:: Berthella Glenn Brooks standing in a yard; Berthella Glenn Brooks with 5 other men and women.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bell Mansion, home of Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1895-1900

Description:: View of Bell Mansion and its grounds, located at 1661 Octavia Street.
Date:: [1895-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Biddy Mason and others at the house of Robert Owens, Sr., First and Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, circa 1870

Beverly McCard with his wife, Gertrude, his infant son, Beverly, and an elderly man, Sacramento, circa 1928

Beverly A. Johnson family members on the front steps of a house, Sacramento, 1890-1910

Beulah Woodard standing beside her work "Biddy Mason" facing two unidentified women, circa 1949

Betye Saar and Alison Saar at their exhibition "Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar" at the UCLA Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, circa 1990

Bethel A.M.E. Church, Fresno, 1916-1917

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, circa 1922

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, Los Angeles, 1920-1926

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Bruington Burke and the Cunningham family members at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach, 1920s

Bert McDonald, attorney, Los Angeles, 1920s

Berthella Glenn Brooks, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Bell Mansion, home of Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1895-1900

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