Names: Alston, Charles, 1907-1977 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Artists Hale Woodruff (L) and Charles Alston (R) at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Artists Charles Alston (L) and Hale Woodruff (R) at the landmark at Beckwourth Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with notebooks or sketchbooks. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston at Union Station upon their arrival in Los Angeles to research the murals that they had been commissioned to paint for the new Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 17, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photographic portrait of the artist Charles Alston. Alston painted a mural in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. building in Los Angeles, entitled "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" around 1948.
Date:: [circa 1948]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Conference with the artists of the mural titled “The Negro in California History” at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company (home office building) left to right: Verna Hickman, Head of Public Relations Department, Golden State Mutual; Titus Alexander, historian, pioneer citizen of Los Angeles, and member mural research committee; Hale Woodruff, artist; George Beavers, Jr., chairman of board, Golden State Mutual; Norman O. Houston, president, Golden State Mutual; Miriam Matthews, librarian, Washington Irving Branch Library, Los Angeles, and member of mural research committee; Charles Alston, artist; Edgar Johnson, secretary, Golden State Mutual.
Date:: September 7, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fred Williams, a blind man, was a real estate broker and newspaper publisher. Editor of the Omaha Monitor, he came to Los Angeles in 1923 and organized and published the Pacific Defender in 1925. Later he became a columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier and a contributor to many other newspapers. He wrote a column titled "Through the Darkness I See."
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Artists Hale Woodruff (L) and Charles Alston (R) at the landmark at Beckwourth Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with notebooks or sketchbooks. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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