Image / Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott, honored by a local dentist association, 1940s

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Title: Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott, honored by a local dentist association, 1940s
Alternative Title: Garrott family, 1950s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1940s]
1940/1950
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. Alice Watkins Garrott was a dentist who married dentist. Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott.
Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott at a gathering where he was honored by a local dental association, with his second wife Dr. Alice Watkins Garrott (seated next to him).
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. After his first wife, Lillie Garrott, died in 1916, Dr. Garrott married Alice Watkins, who became a dentist.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b09_f04_005.tif
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Subject: African American dentists
Garrott, Alice Watkins, 1889-1985
Garrott, Alva C. (Alva Curtis), 1866-1952
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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