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Mattie Scott Nelson (?) with her husband Thomas J. Nelson (?), circa 1900

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Title: Mattie Scott Nelson (?) with her husband Thomas J. Nelson (?), circa 1900
Alternative Title: Mattie Scott Nelson and family
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1900]
1900
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Thomas Nelson, a physician, was the first negro to graduate from medical school in California, at Cooper Medical College (later Stanford Medical School).
Studio portrait of a couple seated in front of a painted backdrop. They might be Mattie Scott Nelson and her husband Thomas J. Nelson, who were married in 1904.
Painted backdrop looks like a world's fair
Mattie Scott Nelson, a civic leader, served as the Secretary of the YMCA for ten years from 1927 to 1937.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b13_f06_002.tif
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Subject: African American civic leaders
African American physicians
Nelson, Thomas J., 1878-1919
Nelson, Mattie Scott, 1881-1960
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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