Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection / Date: 1976 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Unidentified small white dog with a black eye patch color on face, standing next to a wooden fence.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: View of about one hundred school age African American youths in a marching band posing for a group photograph on a lawn. There are fifteen majorettes; two drum majors and an assortment of woodwind, brass, and drum musicians. The photo was taken at night.
Date:: [1960-1990]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Firestone Photographics, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Letter from Arthur M. Robinson, Commissioner, State Parks, to Eugene P. Lasartemay, President of the East Bay Historical Society and member of the subcommittee of the Allensworth Advisory Committee, about a public hearing to be held by the State Parks and Recreation Commission about the general development plan and resource management for the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park to take place on May 14, 1976. Robinson expresses his view that this should not become a large expensive historic park. He suggests that a commemorative park for Allensworth be established in Los Angeles.
Date:: May 21, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of a petition signed in 1894 by the teachers at Sacramento High School. They protested the ousting of Sarah Mildred Jones from her position as "Principal [of] Fremont Primary School, Sacramento, Ca." for reasons of "Race Prejudice." The petition was successful; Jones remained principal until her retirement in 1914.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait photograph of African American artist William E. Smith
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The names of San Francisco streets are labeled, including: Clay St., Washington St., Montgomery St., and Kearney St.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mixed media drawing of a African man wearing a white robe and hat. Artist is Herman "Kofi" Bailey
Date:: [1960-1981]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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