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

Description:: Charlotta Bass (2nd from left), Norman O. Houston (center) with two other men and another woman at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building, probably after its completion in 1949.
Date:: [circa 1949]
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:: 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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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:: Group portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, event speaker, and 22 African Americans at the Second Baptist Church. Mrs. Bethune is in the front wearing a black dress and is leaning on the podium; Norman O. Houston is present (9th from right). On arch above the sanctuary is painted: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism".
Date:: [1938 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dinner party with Norman O. Houston (3rd from left), and John A. Somerville (right) seated at a dining table with a standing woman, another woman and two other men.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rothschild Photo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Norman O. Houston wearing a military uniform, standing in front of a palm tree and a wood-framed house.
Date:: [1915-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: 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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving C.
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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