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Group photograph at a nightclub, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Everette Porter, who became a judge, is in the back, center.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Woods, Clyde, photographer
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Souvenir photograph folder from Oasis Club, Los Angeles, 1951

Description:: Lithograph depicts stylized depictions of architectural domes in yellow and red.
Date:: [1951]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Funeral program for Jesse B. Mann, Chicago, October 1988

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [October 5, 1988?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Kenny Washington and Dick Powell in a still from Rogues' Regiment

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: c1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Julian Rainey with a couple at a party, Los Angeles, early 1950s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [between 1950 and 1955?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

William Goodloe, Juanita Goodloe, Walter Gordon, Jr., Liz McCullough, and Mye Haddox in Los Angeles, circa 1951

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1951?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

African American media figures, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Mantan Moreland with his wife Hazel and daughter Marcella, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Angelle DeLavallade, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Merriman, Ted
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

African American business and legal figures, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

John Levy, Eddie Mallory, and Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Los Angeles, 1949

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Taylor Party, Broady residence, Los Angeles, December 16, 1965

Description:: Photograph taken at the home of Earl C. Broady, an African American man who started his career as a janitor and became a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Date:: December 16, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Walter, Lt.
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Poster for the First Annual Baptist Hour Program, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, May 30, 1954

Description:: Various Baptist churches sponsored a "Baptist hour" at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, May 30, 1954, which included the Unity Chorale Chorus (made up of choir members from many different churches). The principal speaker was the Reverend L. B. Moss (in some news stories he is identified as L. W. Moss), and Walter L. Gordon, Jr. was the MC for the event.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Obituary for attorney Welch LaBan Cockrell, September 1984

Description:: Obituary for African American attorney Welch LaBan Cockrell.
Date:: September 13, 1984
Resource Type:: text
still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Letter from Walter L. Gordon, Jr. to Stone Hotel for Dogs, Los Angeles, 1949

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: February 14, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Souvenir photograph folder from Club Congo, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Text from front of folder: Club Congo, 4215 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles, Calif.Smaller text credits lithograph to Westerfield.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Five Star Liquor Store on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: The Five Star Liquor Store was located at 4625 Central Avenue
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Louise Beavers with her father, William Beavers, behind the Musart Theatre on the opening night of Two in a Bed, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: February 27, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Informal gathering at the bar in Walter Gordon's office, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Portrait of James Baskett, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Clipping from the Pittsburgh Courier with stories about Los Angeles, February 26, 1949

Description:: One story describes the firing of Jerome E. Golden from the Los Angeles Post Office following an investigation into whether or not he was affiliated with the Communist Party. The other story concerns attorney Daniel G. Marshall's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the Los Angeles Bar Association's segregation policy.
Date:: Feb. 26, 1949
Resource Type:: text
still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Six men at home plate, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Bookmakers, gamblers, and drug dealers, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [ca. 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Herb Jeffries receiving two awards, San Francisco, March 1946

Description:: Herb Jeffries and Dick Kaynes
Date:: [March 31, 1946]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Griffin, Earl
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Souvenir of Smalls Paradise cabaret, New York City, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter L. Gordon Co. Real Estate office, Los Angeles, March 1939

Description:: L to R: George Duncan, an unidentified woman, Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Vertner Gordon, Walter L. Gordon, Sr. and Mr. Bruce (first name unknown). Taken in front of the family's real estate office, located at 4065 Central Avenue.
Date:: March, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Charlotta Bass with Walter L. Gordon, Jr. at the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A., Los Angeles, 1949

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: September 6-11, 1959
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Matthews Photographic & News Service
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Ethel (Sissle) Gordon, Atlantic City, 1940s

Description:: Portrait of Ethel Gordon posing in a bathing suit.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Newspaper clipping of obituary of Leon Albany (Barney) Bigard, Los Angeles, 1980

Description:: Newspaper article by Leonard Feather--most likely an obituary of Barney Bigard-- and entitled "Only 2 Bands in More than 2 Decades."
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Obituary for American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Calvin Jackson, December 1985

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: December 7, 1985
Resource Type:: text
still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. and Ernest Weaver, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Stamp on the back of photo: "Credit this photo to Sam Taylor Los Angeles"
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, Sam, 1892-1976
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Tom Bledsoe from New York, 1960s

Description:: Photograph appears to have some water damage.
Date:: [1960s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

National daily sports, April 11, 1951

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: April 11, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Party at the Last Word nightclub on Central Avenue, 1940s

Description:: Photograph is enclosed in a souvenir photo folder from the Last Word nightclub.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Last Word Photos
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Imitation French newspaper La Surete, vol. 1 (no. 2), Sunday, July 16, 1950

Description:: Gag issue of a newspaper called La Surete, issued for a bon voyage party celebrating an upcoming trip to Europe for Ethel (Sissle) Gordon, Hilda Allen, Betty Vaughn, Camille Cannady, and Clara Harris.
Date:: July 16, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

George Ramsey, Al Ramsey, Dorothy Dandridge, and Eddie Burbidge, Tijuana, Mexico, 1947

Description:: Left to right: George Ramsey, John S. Alessio (or Augustine Silveyra?), Al Ramsey, Dorothy Dandridge, Eddie Burbidge.
Date:: January, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Sr.'s shoeshine parlor, Santa Monica, 1910s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [circa 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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