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Title: Golden State Mutual artist Hale Woodruff speaks at an unidentified gathering
Creator: Woods, Clyde
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Rights Holder and Contact: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Funding: Access to this material is generously supported by funding from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Scope/Content: Hale Woodruff, artist and creator of the "The Negro in California History: Settlement & Development" mural, is shown speaking at an unidentified gathering. The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company commissioned the murals for the lobby of their West Adams Home Office building. Artist Charles Alston created the second panel of the murals titled, "The Negro in California History: Exploration and Colonization". Pictured from left to right: Titus Alexander, historian; Charles Alston; Miriam Matthews, librarian and historian; George A. Beavers, Jr., co-founder of Golden State Mutual; Hale Woodruff (standing); Paul R. Williams, architect of the Home Office building at 1999 W. Adams Boulevard; Norman O. Houston, co-founder of Golden State Mutual.
Type: image
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Extent: 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: uclalsc_1434_b264_f001_001
Subject: Woodruff, Hale Aspacio
Alston, Charles Henry
Williams, Paul R.
Relation: Historical Murals files. 1947-1949.
Location: Box 264, Folder 1, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records (Collection 1434). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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