Subject Geographic: Manhattan Beach (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Louise Kenner, wife of Byron Kenner, was a college graduate, active in social organizations, and an active member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Byron F, Kenner was a Los Angeles money order clerk. He was a founding west coast charter member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at UCLA.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Two couples on a boardwalk at Bruce's Beach, including a young woman in checked skirt and oversized waistcoat, with a large hat, a man in a black blazer, white pants and hat, a woman in white dress suit and white hat, and a tall man in a dark suit with his hands in his pockets.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Bruce's Beach, in the city of Manhattan Beach, was on a beach front property purchased by Will and Charles Bruce in 1912. They built a black-only beach resort with a bath house and dining house. The city closed down the resort in the 1920s by proposing to build a park and imposing eminent domain.
Date:: [1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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