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Description:: Cornelius Cooper Johnson executing a high jump in the stadium at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.
Date:: August, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, with a native Indian man beginning the construction of the first Los Angeles pueblo home, built of sticks, with 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Date:: [1931-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Louise Beavers looks at a program with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (left) and an unidentified man.
Date:: 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Date:: [circa 1959]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Plaque commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of El Pueblo de Los Angeles. The plaque marks the southeast boundary, at 3821 E. Olympic Blvd., in Boyle Heights.
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Photomontage with portraits of six women and six men, arranged around a photograph of a house. Filed with other photographs relevent to the Second Baptist Church in theMiriam Matthews collection, this image may represent an early church building, pre-dating the current church building at 2412 Griffith Avenue.
Date:: 1920s (?)
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity members at a national boulé meeting. Drs. Vada (2nd row 12th from right) and John A. Somerville (3rd row, 11th from the right) are probably present.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: James M. Alexander was appointed cashier under the collector for the Sixth Internal-Revenue District of California by President Taft, in Executive Order 1098, dated June 28, 1909.
Date:: [circa 1909]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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