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Description:: Studio portrait of California Dejarnette (or De Jarnette), mother of Lillie Dejarnette (later Lillie Garrott).
Date:: [1870-1880]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Alfred Thomas Quinn (center) with fellow World War II soldiers.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
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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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Description:: Group gathered following the unveiling of the two murals titled “The Negro in California History” in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company’s new home office building (4261 S. Central Ave.). The murals were painted by artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston and installed on the lower walls of the Roman travertine against which the group is standing. Left to right: George Beavers, Jr., chairman of the board, Golden State Mutual; Charlotta Bass, Publisher of the California Eagle, pulled the cord to unveil the Charles Alston Mural; Norman O. Houston, President, Golden State Mutual; Gussie Woods, mother of Hale Woodruff, pulled the cord to unveil the Woodruff mural; and Titus Alexander, member of the California Historical Society who aided in the research upon which the murals are based.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Two plaques at the site of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church building at 8th St. and Towne Ave. with a pictorial image of the church building, and providing a brief history of the A.M.E. and the church's designation as a Los Angeles cultural heritage landmark, and information about the ministers of the church at that time.
Date:: December, 13, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: After the session of California to the United States, the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas land grant was patented to Maria Rita Valdez de Villa. She possessed the land from 1831 to 1854. After that, the property changed hands several times before becoming Beverly Hills in the early 20th century.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Elias Baldwin's race horse, Volante, shown with a black jockey. Volante won the American Derby at Washington Park in 1885. This was the most prestigious race for 3-year-olds at that time.
Date:: [circa 1886]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Rho Psi Phi Medical Sorority was established by Emily Brown Portwig in 1924.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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