Image / Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1925-1930

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Title: Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1925-1930
Alternative Title: Edwin and Helena Harper Coates
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1925-1930]
1920/1930
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Studio portrait of Helena Hester Harper Coates, wearing a beaded 1920s style dress and an embroidered shawl.
Helen Harper Coates was the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies. In 1938, she married Edwin Coates, a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music, who graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School).
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b07_f10_002a.tif
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Subject: African American social workers
Coates, Helen Hester Harper, 1906-1991
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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