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Description:: Tom Bradley (probably, left), Loren Miller (center) and one other man at the Democratic Convention.
Date:: July 7, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group photo of the hostesses for the Haitian Olympic Team in Los Angeles, 1932. Seated, from left: Edith Keyser White; Nella R Blodgett (wife of Louis M. Blodgett); and Miriam Matthews. Standing from left: Kathryn Kinsey; Dr. Anna J. Leggett; Aurora Slater Hoskins; wife of the Haitian counsel; the Haitian Counsel; Lillian M. Tyler (wife of Willis O. Tyler); Helen Louise Wheeler Riddle (wife of John Riddle); Dr. Vada J. Somerville; Mattie Scott Nelson, and Arsine E. Gordon (wife of Dr. G.B.D. Gordon) Inset, Haitian Olympic team members (left to right): Silvio Cator and André Théard.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Studio of Smith, L.A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Ten school age girls of different ethnic backgrounds are standing on the steps in front of the main entrance of Helen Hunt Jackson Benach Library. One girl is holding a large book entitled Mother Goose.
Date:: May 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Elmer Bartlett was a highly acclaimed choir director and organist. Churches where he worked in include the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. He received several awards in the course of his career including first prize for directing the Los Angeles AME's choir at a 1926 choir competition at the Hollywood Bowl. By 1940 he had moved to Elgin Illinois. He continued to direct choirs and play the organ for various A.M.E. churches.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of R&B singer Lou Rawls (center) with the R&B group "Lakeside" (Mark Adam Wood Jr., Tiemeyer McCain, Thomas Shelby, Stephen Shockley, Norman Beavers, Marvin Craig, Fred Lewis, Otis Stokes, Fred Alexander Jr.).
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Vilem Sokol was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985, where he taught violin, viola, and conducting, as well as music appreciation classes directed primarily toward non-music majors. He was conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra from 1960 to 1988, and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [1970-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The Santa Susana Pass is a low mountain pass in the Simi Hills of Southern California, connecting San Fernando Valley to Simi Valley. It was used by Native American tribes for around 8,000 years. Use by Europeans started with the Portola Expedition (1769-1770), by Franciscans to travel from the San Fernando Mission the San Buenaventura, and by San Fernando rancheros after 1834 secularization. A wagon trail was created, and, in 1917, a road was built.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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