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Description:: Left caption: 88th annual communication / most worshipful sovereign grand lodge / free and accepted masons / state of California and jurisdiction [visible in photo at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland Photograph Collection]
Date:: [July 1942]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Aaron Arthur Jenkins married Grace Evelyn Grubbs in 1916. He was a postman who worked in Sacramento from 1906 to 1940 or 1941.
Date:: [circa 1882]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morses Palace of Art (San Francisco, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Abstract painting, probably in Los Angeles, probably by an African American artist.
Date:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: A. C. Bilbrew was the director of the first black choir featured in a film, 1928's Hearts of Dixie, which also happened to be the first black "talkie." She was also a pioneer in radio, becoming the first African American soloist on the radio in 1923, and later, the first African American to have and host a show in 1942. She was a cast member of the movie The Foxes of Harrow in 1947. Bilbrew was a champion of women's rights and childhood literacy; she was a community leader, musician, poet, and deputy to Kenneth Hahn (County Supervisor) A Los Angeles branch library is named after her.
Date:: August 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Adobe duplex dwelling located at the corner of New High and Ord Streets in the former neighborhood called Sonora Town. A man is seen purchasing ice cream from a vendor and his mobile cart.
Date:: May 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: After the session of California to the United States, the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas land grant was patented to Maria Rita Valdez de Villa. She possessed the land from 1831 to 1854. After that, the property changed hands several times before becoming Beverly Hills in the early 20th century.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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