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Description:: Charlotta Bass at Bethel A.M.E. Church during Negro History Week on to give a talk.
Date:: February 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dorsey, John H.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View of the Powell St., near Bush St., with the Third Baptist Church on the right, after the 1906 earthquake with people in the foreground walking around.
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Aaron Arthur Jenkins married Grace Evelyn Grubbs in 1916. He was a postman who worked in Sacramento from 1906 to 1940 or 1941.
Date:: [circa 1882]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morses Palace of Art (San Francisco, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio of the children of William E. Towns and his first wife, Alice Rochford Towns (left to right): Wallace, Ben, Nellie (Alice), and James Henry (who went by Henry). Alice Towns died in 1883.
Date:: [circa 1878]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Vaughan photographers (San Francisco, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: "John and Winthrop," a whaling bark of Captain William Shorey, San Francisco Bay, with land and other ships visible in the distance.
Date:: 1908
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: After his retirement from the military in 1906, he founded the town of Allensworth in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Born on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1810, William Leidesdorff was the son of Danish sugar planter Alexander Leidesdorff and Anna Marie Sparks, a light-skinned woman of mixed race ancestry. In 1841 Leidesdorff settled in the Mexican village of Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay. Over the next three years he became a successful merchant by making frequent trips between California, Mexico and Hawaii. In 1844 governor Micheltorena confirmed his land grant of 35,000 acres on the American River. Ranch Rio de Los Americanos was located near the spot where James Marshall discovered gold in January 1848. When Leidesdorff died unexpectedly in May 1848 he was buried inside Mission Dolores Church. Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American diplomat. He was elected to San Francisco’s first city council and its first school board in 1847. He built the first hotel, the first shipping warehouse, he operated the first steamboat on San Francisco Bay, and he laid out the first horse race track in California
Date:: [circa 1978 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Sargent Claude Johnson was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation. He was known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles. He was a painter, potter, ceramicist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. He worked with a variety of media, including ceramics, clay, oil, stone, terra-cotta, watercolor, and wood. [Wikipedia]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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