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Title
Dr. Wilbur Clarence Gordon and Cynthia Mitchell Gordon on their wedding day at the Somerville home, Los Angeles, 1944-1945
Alternative Title
Friends and relatives of Somervilles
Date Created and/or Issued
[1944-1945]
1944/1945
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. Her father was Alfred Black and her brother was Junior G. Black. She married the dentist, Dr. Isadore C. Mitchell (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.
Dr. Wilbur Clarence Gordon was a physician. He was born in Ohio and practiced medicine in Los Angeles.
Dr. Wilbur Clarence Gordon and Cynthia Mitchell Gordon stand in front of a window in the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville on their wedding day. This is probably at the house at 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b14_f16_001.tif
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Subject
African American couples
African American physicians
Weddings
Smith, Cynthiabelle Gordon, 1894 or 95-1978
Gordon, Wilbur Clarence, 1879-1945
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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