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

Description:: Jose Cesario Moreno and his wife Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez were from Real del Rosario, Sinaloa. They were among 12 families from Rosario recruited in 1781 to settle in Los Angeles. Moreno served as a Los Angeles Regidor; he is buried at Mission San Gabriel.
Date:: [circa 1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: A drawing of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo depicts the grounds as they appeared in November 1792. From A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World by Captain George Vancouver (1798).
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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
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Description:: Sammy Davis Jr. was an African American singer, musician, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian. He began his career in vaudeville at the age of 3 with his father, Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards.
Date:: [1970-1980]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles home of Emily Brown Childress Portwig and James Rufus Portwig, at 1549 W. 35th St. in Los Angeles. Because of Mr. Portwig's Naval career, they name the house "The Anchor" and it was the gathering place for the younger social set called the "Anchorettes."
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adair Photo L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photographic montage with images of five Prince Hall Masonic lodges in California, each one with a distinctive architectural style: Prince Hall Masonic Temple (1050 E. 50th St., Los Angeles), Orange Valley Lodge Hall (2931 12th St, Riverside), Fidelity Lodge Hall, (3007 Logan Ave, San Diego), Hannibal Lodge Hall (2804 Bush Street San Francisco), and Masonic Hall, Pasadena.
Date:: [1945-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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