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Detail of a mural titled "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" by Charles Alston, at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building, Los Angeles, circa 1949

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Title: Detail of a mural titled "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" by Charles Alston, at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building, Los Angeles, circa 1949
Alternative Title: Golden State Mutual Life Mural, panel by Charles Alston
Contributor: Alston, Charles, 1907-1977
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1949]
1949
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: In 1947 Miriam Matthews was hired to conduct historical research for the murals of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building.
Photograph of a detail from the Charles Alston painting "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" a mural in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building in Los Angeles (4261 S. Central Ave.), created 1948-1949.
Written on back of photograph: From Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. mural -- by Chas. Alston (Founding of Los Angeles) Courtesy GSM Life Insurance Co. OK'd by the Director / copy belongs to Miriam Matthews
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f14_004a.tif
ark:/21198/z18k8t40
Subject: California--History
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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