Names: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View from the audience towards the stage of the Hollywood Bowl during Eleanor Roosevelt's speech about the employment of charity to relieve human suffering. Program participants and an orchestra are also on the stage.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (left), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and an unidentified woman, at a reception honoring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt hosted by Vada Somerville in her home. This is probably at the house at 2401 Harvard Blvd.
Date:: January 17-18, 1950
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:: January 17-18, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Anne F. O'Ferrall was the President of the Metropolitan branch of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from 1948 to 1952.
Date:: January 17-18, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Blakeley Avalon Photographers (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Standing in front of the open door to the American Airways plane Amon Carter takes to one side of Mrs. Roosevelt with Charles Hitchcock standing behind her and Elliott on the other side of Charles.
Date:: June 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt leaving a car at Central Station after speaking at the Hollywood Bowl; she holds a bouquet of flowers. Two men assist her and 2 women are in the car.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eleanor Roosevelt accompanied President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his trip to Los Angeles, his first as president, where they toured by motorcade. She gave a speech at the Hollywood Bowl. Photo possibly from her return back to Central Station, which was located at Fifth and Alameda Street.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt at Central Station just prior to leaving for San Diego with 3 men standing on either side of her and her secretary Malvina Thompson in the background next to the presidential train.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eleanor Roosevelt delivers a speech at the Hollywood Bowl. Eleanor and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Los Angeles for a day before visiting San Diego. During their time in Los Angeles, the President gave a speech at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a speech at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: October 01, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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