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Ysidro Reyes, half-owner of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes, circa 1853-1861

Description:: Juan Francisco Reyes, was a mulatto settler from Mexico who arrived shortly after the original settlers of 1781. In 1784, he received the Spanish Crown’s land-grant for Rancho Los Encinos. After selling it back, he received the land grant for Lompoc. He became the first alcalde (mayor) of the Los Angeles pueblo in 1790.
Date:: [circa 1853-1861]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Youths participating in the National Youth Administration Work Program, Riverside, 1938

Description:: African American children and youths working on various projects at tables in a room as participants in a work program of the National Youth Administration.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young woman in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

Description:: Studio portrait of a young woman.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young woman, Detroit, 1895-1900

Description:: Edgar A. Kepler's photography studio, "E. A. Kepler & Co.," is documented in Detroit from 1896 to 1899.
Date:: [1895-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: E. A. Kepler & Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young woman, 1940s-1950s

Description:: African American woman wearing a dark-colored dress, standing in front of bushes, next to a car tire, with a house in the background.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young woman, 1860-1900

Description:: Studio portrait of a young African American woman wearing an elaborate hat, coat and fur piece.
Date:: [1860-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young man wearing a suit and holding a diploma, 1890-1920

Description:: Studio portrait of an African American boy seating on a wooden chair wearing a suit, and holding a scrolled document, perhaps a diploma.
Date:: [1890-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young man and two women swimming, 1920s

Description:: View of an African American man with each arm wrapped around and two women dressed in swimsuits. They are standing knee-deep in a lake or stream.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young girl in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

Description:: Studio portrait of a young girl standing beside a classicizing pedestal with a basket of flowers and a painted landscape backdrop. She is a member of the A. J. Roberts family, perhaps his daughter, Myrtle.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young girl, friend of the Matthews family 1910-1930..]

Description:: A young African American girl in a light-colored eyelet cotton fabric dress and stockings stands in a lawn in front of a tropical plant.
Date:: [1910-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young boy in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

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:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Young African American woman, circa 1950

Description:: Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 African Americans. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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WWI military police: Harry W. Sheppard, Norman O. Houston, John Wynn, Clay E. Hunter and George W. Washington, France, 1915-1918

Description:: Norman O. Houston was the president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, at one time the largest black-owned business west of the Mississippi.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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World War I Officers Reserve Training Camp at Camp Fort Des Moines, 1917

Description:: The 317th Engineers was first constituted on 24 October 1917 and organized at Camp Sherman, Ohio as the 317th Engineer Regiment, 92nd Division. Like the rest of the 92nd Division, the 317th Engineers was an all black, or “Negro troops” unit, with many of the NCOs coming from the 9th and 10th Cavalry. The 317th Engineers sailed for France in June 1918, and it was the first unit of the 92nd Division to enter the line, completing the relief of the 7th Engineers on 23 August 1918. The unit earned campaign streamers for the Meuse-Argonne and Lorraine campaigns supporting the 92nd Division and the 1st Army Corps. After the war, the 317th was demobilized 31 March 1919. [http://www.317thengineers.com/history]
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Santee
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team, Visalia vicinity (?), 1880s-1890s

Description:: Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team on a farm. This might be the farm of Wiley Hinds in the area of Kaweah and Mineral King vicinity in Tulare County.
Date:: [1880s-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

Description:: Aerial view of Woodrow Wilson High School designed by Paul R. Williams.
Date:: [1968-1969]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

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:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

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:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Women who backed Dr. John A. Somerville's candidacy for City Council, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

Description:: Group portrait of a group of women who backed Dr. John Alexander Somerville when he was a candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. Dr. Vada Somerville is among them (seated, 7th from right).
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving C.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Women's Day at the Church of Christian Fellowship, Los Angeles, 1954

Description:: Group portrait of seven African American women and one man to commemorate the observance of Women's Day by the Church of Christian Fellowship.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Ysidro Reyes, half-owner of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes, circa 1853-1861

Youths participating in the National Youth Administration Work Program, Riverside, 1938

Young woman in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

Young woman, Detroit, 1895-1900

Young woman, 1940s-1950s

Young woman, 1860-1900

Young man wearing a suit and holding a diploma, 1890-1920

Young man and two women swimming, 1920s

Young girl in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

Young girl, friend of the Matthews family 1910-1930..]

Young boy in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s

Young African American woman, circa 1950

WWI military police: Harry W. Sheppard, Norman O. Houston, John Wynn, Clay E. Hunter and George W. Washington, France, 1915-1918

World War I Officers Reserve Training Camp at Camp Fort Des Moines, 1917

Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team, Visalia vicinity (?), 1880s-1890s

Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

Women who backed Dr. John A. Somerville's candidacy for City Council, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

Women's Day at the Church of Christian Fellowship, Los Angeles, 1954

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