Image / Group portrait with the Alva Curtis Garrott family, Glendale, circa 1907

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Title: Group portrait with the Alva Curtis Garrott family, Glendale, circa 1907
Alternative Title: Dr. A.C. Garrott and family
Contributor: Prominent Individuals and Families, 1885-1980
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907
[circa 1907]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Dr. Alva Curtis Alva Garrott married Lillie Dejarnette in 1893. Dr. Garrott earned degrees in Pharmacy and Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D. C. before bringing his family to Los Angeles in 1901, becoming this city's first Negro dentist.
Group portrait at the Garrott home in Glendale with the Garrotts and others: front row, L to R: Alva Curtis Garrott (2nd), Lillie Garrott (3rd); 2nd row: Miriam Garrott (center). They are at the "tent" house; which was a temporary dwelling.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b09_f02_007.tif
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Subject: African American dentists
African American families
Garrott, Lilli, D., 1871-1916
Garrott, Alva C. (Alva Curtis), 1866-1952
Garrott, Miriam, b. 1897
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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