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Bessie Bruington and her sister Ethel, Los Angeles, circa 1894

Description:: Studio portrait of Bessie Bruington Burke with her younger sister Ethel Bruington. Ethel is seated on a chair covered with what looks like a sheepskin rug.
Date:: [circa 1894]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bert Williams, 1900-1922

Description:: Bert Williams was a major performer on the vaudeville circuit; he sang, danced, and pantomimed in clubs, cabarets, and theaters across the country. Williams performed in blackface makeup like his white counterparts.
Date:: [1900-1922]
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

Benjamin F. "Reb" Spikes with his Majors & Minors Orchestra, 1928

Description:: "Reb" Spikes (center) conducting 10 members of his Majors and Minors Orchestra on a stage with an architectural backdrop.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Benjamin F. "Reb" Spikes with his Majors & Minors Orchestra, 1925

Description:: "Reb" Spikes (standing, 5th from left) with 8 members of his Majors and Minors Orchestra.
Date:: 1925
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

Belles of The Gay Nineties, by John Fowler, Los Angeles, 1890-1900

Description:: Studio portraits of sixteen African American women taken in the 1890s. From a California Eagle column called "Spreading Joy" written by John Fowler. All the young women are well dressed wearing ornate hats, or elaborate hair styles.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle Johnson Butler, Sacramento, circa 1900

Description:: Studio portrait of Belle Johnson Butler.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Varney Photographer (Sacramento, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle Johnson Butler, circa 1896

Description:: Belle Johnson Butler, Helena Theresa Johnson Harper and Louise V. Johnson McCard were sisters.
Date:: [circa 1896]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle Johnson Butler, circa 1896

Description:: Belle Johnson Butler, Helena Theresa Johnson Harper and Louise V. Johnson McCard were sisters.
Date:: [circa 1896]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle Johnson Butler and Helena Theresa Johnson Harper, circa 1896

Description:: Studio portrait of sisters Belle Johnson Butler and Helena Theresa Johnson Harper standing in front of a painted garden backdrop.
Date:: [circa 1896]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle Johnson Butler and Helena Theresa Johnson Harper, circa 1896

Description:: Belle Johnson Butler, Helena Theresa Johnson Harper and Louise V. Johnson McCard were sisters.
Date:: [circa 1896]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Belle, Alma and Grace Grubbs, Sacramento, circa 1895

Description:: Studio portrait of (from left): Belle, Alma and Grace Grubbs as young girls. They stand beside a cafe chair in front of a painted backdrop with a lake.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Beckwourth Pass, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Chilcoot-Vinton (California), (copy photo 1930-1989)

Description:: Photomechanical print of Beckwourth Trail, with Beckwourth Pass.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Barber shop of Robert James Boyd, Los Angeles, 1902-1910

Description:: Robert James Boyd was born in North Carolina. He married Emma P. Barrett in Los Angeles and in 1910 they lived at 1242 El Molino (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.) in Los Angeles, next to 1244 El Molino, where Emma had lived with her family before she was married from as early as 1900. By 1917, he is reported as working in a barbershop in Riverside city directories from 1917 to 1947. According to Miriam Matthews, he owned the barbershop. Robert and Emma had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward.
Date:: [1902-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Banquet table set for an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, between 1944-1950

Description:: Banquet table at an anniversary celebration of Drs. John and Vada Somerville with flowers, candles, coffee urns and two cakes. This is at their home at 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
Date:: [between 1944-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gilwee, Jim
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Bank check signed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, on November 27, 1886

Description:: Check made out to the Spring Valley Water Works for the amount of Twenty eight dollars and 35 cents by Mary Ellen Pleasant.
Date:: 1886
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Band leader Kernaa D. Mcfarlin with his youth band at the World's Fair, New York, 1964

Description:: Marching band of band leader Kernaa D. McFarlin standing in three long rows in front of a tall landmark sign with the word Florida on it at the New York World's Fair.
Date:: 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Ballinger Kemp at a tennis court, Los Angeles, 1916-1919

Description:: Ballinger Presley Kemp was a champion tennis player from Los Angeles.
Date:: [1916-1919)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

"Bad Boy," bronze bust by Beulah Woodard, 1937

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:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Back of a post card photograph of "Jack" Anne Louise Shaw, a friend of the Miriam Matthews family, 1890-1920

Description:: Back of a postcard photograph of Anne Louise Shaw.
Date:: [1890-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

A young woman and two toddlers, relatives of the Locketts, Duarte (?), circa 1910

Description:: Fannie and James Lockett came to Duarte in 1908. In 1909 they built a house and started a general store.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Award presented to Thelma M. Johnson, a direct descendant of Jose Lara, who was a poblador who participated in the 1781 founding of the pueblo of Los Angeles, 1981

Description:: Award presented to Thelma M. Johnson, signed by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and others.
Date:: 1981
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Avalon Christian Church, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Exterior view of the Avalon Church (4272 S. Avalon).
Date:: May 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artwork by Joaquin Chinas, 1961

Description:: Charcoal drawing of a young woman by Mexican/Native American artist Joaquin Chinas
Date:: 1961
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artist standing in front of a painting, 1950-1989

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Union Station during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Los Angeles, 1948

Description:: Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Union Station upon their arrival in Los Angeles to research the murals that they had been commissioned to paint for the new Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 17, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, San Diego, 1948

Description:: Artists Hale Woodruff (L) and Charles Alston (R) at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948

Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artist seated in a studio, 1950-1989

Description:: Photograph of an unidentified African descent artist seated next to an art table probably in his studio, probably in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948

Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Arthur E. Prince, superintendent of the Enterprise School District, Redding, circa 1950

Description:: Arthur E. Prince was the superintendent of the Enterprise School District. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and was active in civic events in Southern California. He and his wife were the second black family to reside in Pasadena.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Arthur E. Prince, superintendent of the District Superintendent, receiving an award, Redding, circa 1950

Description:: Arthur E. Prince was the superintendent of the Enterprise School District. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and was active in civic events in Southern California. He and his wife were the second black family to reside in Pasadena.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Army officers at an American Legion Convention, San Francisco, 1946

Description:: Gathering of 9 army military personnel at an American Legion Convention in San Francisco. They are in dress suits, wearing official hats. Standing in front of the Army logo
Date:: August 31-September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Boland, John J.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

A. Philip Randolph,1935-1968

Description:: Portrait of A. Philip Randolph.
Date:: [1935-1968]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Ann Shaw, Los Angeles civic leader, 1977

Description:: Studio portrait of Ann Shaw.
Date:: 1977
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Announcement of the dedication of the new Southern area Boys' Club, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:: Announcement of the dedication of the new Southern Area Boys Club with a photographic image of the building and the logo of the Boys Club organization.
Date:: 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Annis Hackley, 1910

Description:: The Williams Jubilee Singers were organized in Chicago (1904) by Charles P. Williams. They were among the first jubilee singing groups to use a quartet rather than the usual 10 to 12. They performed in the United States and Europe, disbanding in the early 1930s.
Date:: March 30, 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Atelier Elite
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Madah Hyers in a scene, circa 1880

Description:: Anna Madah Hyers was and African American singer and performed in black musical theater. With her sister, Emma Louise Hyers, Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." Their first play was Out of Bondage (also known as Out of the Wilderness), followed by Urlina, the African Princess, The Underground Railway, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Date:: [circa 1880]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Frances Coleman Jones, circa 1915

Description:: James Henry Coleman was a pioneer contractor & business man in Redding.
Date:: [circa 1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Frances Coleman Jones, circa 1915

Description:: James Henry Coleman was a pioneer contractor & business man in Redding.
Date:: [circa 1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens, Los Angeles, circa 1900

Description:: Studio portrait of Anna Dugged Owens standing in a satin dress.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens, Los Angeles, circa 1900

Description:: Studio portrait of Anna Dugged Owens seated next to a side table with flowers on the top.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens (left) with a playmate, 1880-1900

Description:: Anna Dugged Owens married Robert Curry Owens who was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr., and Biddy Mason.
Date:: [1880-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens as a child, 1880-1890

Description:: Anna Dugged Owens married Robert Curry Owens who was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr. and Biddy Mason, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners.
Date:: [1880-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens as a child, 1880-1890

Description:: On the back is a biographical note about Robert Owens, Sr., written by Robert Curry Owens, his grandson, p. 4
Date:: [1880-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens as a child, 1880-1890

Description:: Studio portrait of Anna Dugged Owens as a girl, standing beside a potted plant with a landscape backdrop in the background.
Date:: [1880-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Dugged Owens, 1890-1900

Description:: Anna Dugged Owens married Robert Curry Owens who was the grandson of Robert Owens, Sr. and Biddy Mason, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Angelita Williams, Los Angeles, 1915 (?)

Description:: Angelita Williams, a young, an African American woman wearing a hat and gloves, stands next to an early model automobile, with a dwelling in the background.
Date:: 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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