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Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith and a male coworker in an office of the U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.,1939

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Title: Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith and a male coworker in an office of the U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.,1939
Alternative Title: Friends and relatives of Somervilles
Date Created and/or Issued: [1939]
1939
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith was born Cynthiabelle Black in Americus, Georgia on June 19, 1894. Her father was Alfred Black and her brother was Junior G. Black. She married the dentist, Dr. Isadore C. Mitchell on April 30, 1925. Shortly after, he completed dental school at Howard University and then moved to Los Angeles. In 1934, she moved to Washington, D.C. seeking work, and divorced Mitchell in 1936. In 1937 she was working for the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, D. C.. She married the physician Dr. Wilbur Gordon (possibly in 1942) and was widowed. She married Dr. R. Stillman Smith in 1947.
Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith and an African American man working in an office seated at desks across from each other.
Written on back of photo: From Cynthiabelle Mitchell
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b14_f16_010a.tif
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Subject: Government agencies
Smith, Cynthiabelle Gordon, 1894 or 95-1978
United States. Public Health Service
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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