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Description:: Photo of a small group of African American women in business attire at Union Station greet African Methodist Episcopal Church conference delegates. Three hold signs reading "Welcome delegates A.M.E Gen'l Conference Ask Us!," Other African American adults are in the background.
Date:: May 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wesley Russell was an attorney in Los Angeles. He enlisted in December 1941.
Date:: [circa 1942]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wesley Chapel was built 1902 for the Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (now Wesley United Methodist Church) which has an African American congregation. The building was sold in 1946.
Date:: [circa 1902-1909]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wesley Chapel was built 1902 for the Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (now Wesley United Methodist Church) which has an African American congregation. The building was sold in 1946.
Date:: [circa 1902-1909]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Roscoe Jones was a famous African American golfer during the Jim Crow era in American History. He competed in several events held at West Coast golf clubs during the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:: [1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Westwood (Linde) Medical Plaza, is a 12 story office building used for medical and dental procedures. Coined the “classic Modern-era style with a tall vertical mass of the building set against a long, horizontal mass.” Morris Linde was the head of the development and construction company that built the building. With other building design/construction collaborations, Linde and Williams, helped to change the face of Los Angeles County.
Date:: [circa 1961]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain. He was born in Barbados July 13, 1859 and spent his life at sea. He became the only black captain operating on the west coast of the United States in the late-1880s and 1890s. He obtained his certification in 1885. His whaling voyages were based out of San Francisco. The "John and Winthrop" was the only whaling ship in the world to be manned entirely by an African-American crew. Shorey retired from whaling in 1908 (Wikipedia). A street in west Oakland, where Shorey lived, is named after him.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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-1914]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Edgar Easton seated with his granddaughter, Athenaise Marie Houston, in his lap and his daughter, Dorothy Easton Houston, standing behind him, in front of a house.
Date:: [1924-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait photograph of African American artist William E. Smith
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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