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Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members Martha Williams, Carol Brice, and Ursula Murrell at a sorority event, Los Angeles, 1935-1950

Description:
Carol Brice was an American contralto. She studied at Palmer Memorial Institute, Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama (BA, 1939), and the Juilliard School of Music (1939-1943). She attracted considerable attention for her role in a production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair (1939), where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.
Date:
[1935-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members Martha Williams, Carol Brice, and Ursula Murrell at a sorority event, Los Angeles, 1935-1950

Boys' school portrait with their teacher at the 49th Street School, Los Angeles, 1940-1960

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1940-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Boys' school portrait with their teacher at the 49th Street School, Los Angeles, 1940-1960

Bronze bust of Sir Perry M. Smith by Beulah Woodard, 1940-1955

Description:
Perry M. Smith was the Chief Grand Mentor of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, an African-American fraternal organization best known as the sponsor of the Taborian Hospital. Around 1938 Perry persuaded the Mississippi Jurisdiction of the order to build a hospital in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. To pay for it, each member paid an annual assessment into a hospital fund. In addition, Smith visited sharecroppers and tenants on plantations throughout Mississippi to raise funds.
Date:
[circa 1940-1955]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bronze bust of Sir Perry M. Smith by Beulah Woodard, 1940-1955

Carol Brice with her brother, Jonathan Brice, 1940-1960

Description:
Carol Brice was an African American contralto. She made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice. She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and received a bachelor of music degree at Talladega College in Alabama. Brice performed on Broadway in several well-known plays and musicals. Brice began teaching at the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1974. She later founded the non-profit Cimarron Circuit Opera Company in Oklahoma with her husband, the baritone Thomas Carey.
Date:
[1040-1060]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Morehead, Howard
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Carol Brice with her brother, Jonathan Brice, 1940-1960

Choir in front of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1940-1960

Description:
First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:
[1940-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Choir in front of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1940-1960

Commercial building owned by Margaret Scott, Los Angeles,1930-1950

Description:
Two story commercial building with a Spanish style roof tile accent and relief medallions, on the corner of Griffith Avenue and East 16th Street. The sign reading "Bob's Meat Market" is topped by a "Coca-Cola" logo. The house of Margaret and John M. Scott, at 1011 E. 16th St. is visible beyond the building.
Date:
[1930-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Commercial building owned by Margaret Scott, Los Angeles,1930-1950

Congregation of the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1930-1960

Description:
The Hamilton M. E. Church of Los Angeles was formed in 1904. It was originally named the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and changed the name in 1952 to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Historically, the church denomination was a trailblazer in their support of women’s professional development and leadership roles in organizing church missions and in the ministry. The church has its roots in evangelicalism, and has maintained that connection throughout its history.
Date:
[1930-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Congregation of the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1930-1960

Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1930-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dental office of Drs. John and Vada Somerville, Los Angeles (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Descendants of America Waldo Bogle and Richard A. Bogle, Oregon or Washington, 1940s-1950s

Description:
America Waldo Bogle was the daughter of a slave mother and probably one of the Waldo brothers (Missouri businessmen and slave owners who moved to the Oregon Territory). She married Jamaican immigrant Richard Bogle in 1863. He opened a barbershop in Walla Walla, owned a ranch or farm, and was one of the founders of the Walla Walla Building and Loan Association. Five of their eight children lived into adulthood. Three of the sons became barbers in Portland.
Date:
[1940-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Descendants of America Waldo Bogle and Richard A. Bogle, Oregon or Washington, 1940s-1950s

Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Description:
Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, with a native Indian man beginning the construction of the first Los Angeles pueblo home, built of sticks, with 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Date:
[1931-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Dr. John Somerville with others having dinner at a hotel, 1940s-1950s

Description:
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:
[1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. John Somerville with others having dinner at a hotel, 1940s-1950s

Drs. John A. Somerville and Vada Somerville at host Ursula Murrell, Carol Brice, and Reverend George Garner, Los Angeles, 1944-1951

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1944-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Drs. John A. Somerville and Vada Somerville at host Ursula Murrell, Carol Brice, and Reverend George Garner, Los Angeles, 1944-1951

Dr. Vada Somerville, circa 1940s

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1940-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville, circa 1940s

Dr. Vada Somerville, Marian Anderson and Martha Jefferson Louis, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville, Marian Anderson and Martha Jefferson Louis, Los Angeles, 1940s

Dr. Vada Somerville with two other women, circa 1940s

Description:
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:
[1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville with two other women, circa 1940s

Edwin Coates, music teacher and husband of Helena Harper Coates, 1940-1950

Description:
Edwin Coates (Charles Edwin Coates) was a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music in New York. In 1917, he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, which was founded and directed by Frank Heino Damrosch, and which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School. In 1938 he married social worker Helena Hester Harper, the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies.
Date:
[1940-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Edwin Coates, music teacher and husband of Helena Harper Coates, 1940-1950

Elbert S. Conner, secretary and manager of the Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce, seated and leaning forward, Santa Barbara, 1946

Description:
Elbert S. Conner, secretary and manager of the Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce, seated and leaning forward at a desk. He is wearing a suit. In front of him is a stack of papers. In the background is a bookcase with files and documents, and a window.
Date:
[February 18, 1946]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Elbert S. Conner, secretary and manager of the Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce, seated and leaning forward, Santa Barbara, 1946

Engraved image of the New World Market, located at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial Streets, San Francisco, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

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:
[1930-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Engraved image of the New World Market, located at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial Streets, San Francisco, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Fay Jackson and Dr. Vada Somerville with an unidentified girl and boy, 1940s-1950s

Description:
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:
[1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Fay Jackson and Dr. Vada Somerville with an unidentified girl and boy, 1940s-1950s

Five Prince Hall Freemasonry Masonic Lodges in California, including Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Pasadena, and San Francisco, 1940-1989

Description:
Photographic montage with images of five Prince Hall Masonic lodges in California, each one with a distinctive architectural style: Prince Hall Masonic Temple (1050 E. 50th St., Los Angeles), Orange Valley Lodge Hall (2931 12th St, Riverside), Fidelity Lodge Hall, (3007 Logan Ave, San Diego), Hannibal Lodge Hall (2804 Bush Street San Francisco), and Masonic Hall, Pasadena.
Date:
[1945-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Five Prince Hall Freemasonry Masonic Lodges in California, including Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Pasadena, and San Francisco, 1940-1989

Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)

Description:
Gathering of Garrott and DeJarnette (or De Jarnette) families. Standing, back row: Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott (?): center; second row, seated, from left: 1) Helen Duncan Garrott, 2) Willa Garrott, 3) Fannie James (wife of James Garrott, Sr.), 6) Mable Dejarnette Keenan, 7) Alice Dejarnette Hooper.
Date:
[1940s (?)]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Gathering of the Garrott and Dejarnette (or De Jarnette) families, Los Angeles, 1940s (?)