Names: Houston, Norman O. (Norman Oliver), 1893-1981 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Studio portrait of Norman O. Houston wearing a military uniform.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Board Chairman George A. Beavers, Jr.; President Norman O. Houston; Controller Helen E. Batiste and architect Paul R. Williams view "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" mural, by Charles Alston, on the floor at the new Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. home office building, just after the panel was unpacked. Williams was the architect of the new Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. building completed in 1949.
Date:: August 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: August 1-4, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of five African American men in uniforms, seated on a park bench, during WWI duty in France.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Reverend George Lyon Pratt was the rector of the Church of the Advent, beginning in 1946 (saving it from bankruptcy).
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rothschild Photo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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