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Fort McDowell when Colonel Allen Allensworth was stationed there, San Francisco, circa 1900

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Title: Fort McDowell when Colonel Allen Allensworth was stationed there, San Francisco, circa 1900
Alternative Title: Homes of Allensworth family in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1900]
1900
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Birds eye view of Fort McDowell at the time that Colonel Allen Allensworth was posted there.
Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b05_f03_005.tif
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Subject: Fort McDowell (Calif.)
Allensworth, Allen, 1842-1914
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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