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Title: James H. Garrott, architect, circa 1915
Alternative Title: James Garrott, architect, and family
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1915]
1915
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 James H. Garrott (Jr.).
James Homer Garrott, was an African-American architect active in the Los Angeles area in the mid-20th century who designed more than 200 buildings. He has been described as a "pivotal black Avant garde modernist of the 1940s era. He earned his architect's license (1928), studied Architecture at the University of Southern California (1930-1934) and was the second African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Los Angeles (1946).
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b09_f06_004a.tif
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Subject: African American architects
Garrott, James H. (James Homer), 1897-1991
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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