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Title: Frederick M. Roberts
Date Created and/or Issued: 1919
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2011-0675.
Bust-length portrait. "Frederick M. Roberts, 1919" -- handwritten on verso.
Frederick Madison Roberts was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Arrived in California around 1885, settling in Los Angeles. Worked various jobs, running his father's undertaking business, editor of several newspapers (Colorado Springs Light, New Age), principal of the Mound Bayou Normal and Industrial Institute. Ran for State Assembly in 1918 for 62nd Assembly District.
Also have negative: no. 23,186 (5x4 in.)
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print, paper mount ; 5 1/8 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001566278CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Roberts, Frederick M.--Portraits
California. Legislature. Assembly--Photographs
California Legislative Black Caucus--Photographs
African American legislators--California--Portraits
African American men--California--Los Angeles--Portraits
African American newspaper editors--United States--Portraits
African American educators--United States--Portraits
Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Los Angeles
United States
Sacramento (Calif.)

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