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Description:: View of boys and girls, including one African American girl, in a Sloyd-based woodworking room at Ann Street School.
Date:: 1890-1900
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Date:: 1857
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A. C. Bilbrew was the director of the first black choir featured in a film, 1928's Hearts of Dixie, which also happened to be the first black "talkie." She was also a pioneer in radio, becoming the first African American soloist on the radio in 1923, and later, the first African American to have and host a show in 1942. She was a cast member of the movie The Foxes of Harrow in 1947. Bilbrew was a champion of women's rights and childhood literacy; she was a community leader, musician, poet, and deputy to Kenneth Hahn (County Supervisor) A Los Angeles branch library is named after her.
Date:: August 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James Homer Garrott, was an African-American architect active in the Los Angeles area in the mid-20th century who designed more than 200 buildings. He has been described as a "pivotal black Avant garde modernist of the 1940s era. He earned his architect's license (1928), studied Architecture at the University of Southern California (1930-1934) and was the second African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Los Angeles (1946).
Date:: January 1961
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Image depicting 21 debutants in light colored evening gowns who participated in the popularity contest of the Wilfandel Club women, seated on the stage of the Polytechnic High School in front of a painted landscape backdrop. The winner, Elinor Vera Winston, is in the center.
Date:: May 6, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Far left photo: Studio portrait of W. C. Handy at age 19 in a uniform holding a trumpet. Bottom right photo: Verna Arvey (right) seated on a porch swing with an unidentified man and woman. Top right photo: Man standing in front of a glass wall, possibly William Grant Still.
Date:: [1882-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Freedom paper of Allen Leight, prepared by the notary Joseph Woodward, in New York City, in 1827.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Louisa Owens and her three sisters, against a garden scene backdrop.
Date:: [circa 1885]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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