Names: Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Marian Anderson, the great American opera contralto, prepares to christen the Brooker T. Washington.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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
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Description:: Portrait of Marian Anderson who is wearing pearls and a corsage.
Date:: [1935-1968]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century.
Date:: [1930-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 African American. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Date:: [circa 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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