Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Jefferson, Susan; University of Southern California. Law School Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Two photographs. The first photograph is of African-American Edwin Jefferson in a bathing suit under a large beach umbrella, laying on a towel possibly at Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1920's. In the right of the picture is the ocean. A building is visible in the distant background. The second photograph is of African-American Mattie Pearl Hawkins in the same locale. She is wearing a white dress. Many buildings are visible to the right and in the background.
Type
image
Format
photograph : b&w 11 x 7 cm. (Jefferson) 12 x 8 cm. (Hawkins) photographs
Beaches--California--Los Angeles Bathing suits African Americans African Americans--History--1877-1964 Jefferson, Edwin Lucius Hawkins, Mattie Pearl Beaches
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