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Emily Brown Childress Portwig with a horse outside her desert cabin, Victorville, 1920s-1930s

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Title: Emily Brown Childress Portwig with a horse outside her desert cabin, Victorville, 1920s-1930s
Alternative Title: Emily Brown Childress Portwig, pharmacist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1920s-1930s]
1920/1940
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Emily Brown Childress Portwig in riding gear holding the reins of a horse, standing outside of her desert cabin in Victorville.
Emily Brown Childress Portwig was a Los Angeles pharmacist and civic leader. She married Anderson V. Childress in 1909. She was widowed by 1930. She was married to James Rufus Portwig in 1933.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b11_f10_002a.tif
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Subject: Horses
African American civic leaders
African American pharmacists
Cabins
Portwig, Emily Brown Childress, 1896-1960
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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