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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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