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Title
Women at garden party at Noble Sissle's house, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created and/or Issued
[1940s?]
1940/1949
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Rights Information
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Description
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Photograph taken at Noble Sissle's house on Juliet Street, while Ethel was married to him.
In the front row, Ethel Sissle is 3rd from the left, Marva Louis is 4th from the left, and Catherine Garcia is 6th from the left. 2nd from the right is Morgan Robinson's daughter (name unknown), and 4th from the right is Bessie M. Gant. The tallest woman in the back row, at the right, is possibly Aurora Slater. At the far left in the 2nd row is Ellen (Bruce) Fowler.
In 1946, Noble Sissle lived at 2126 S. Harvard. Blvd. in Los Angeles.
Identifier
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0398
Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 7
ark:/21198/zz0025pg81
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Events
Lifestyle
African American women journalists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African American models
Secretaries--California--Los Angeles
Parties--California--Los Angeles
African American women teachers--California--Los Angeles
Fowler, Ellen
Gant, Bess M., 1896-1962
Spaulding, Marva Louis, 1915-2000
Slater, Aurora
Garcia, Catherine
Sissle, Ethel
Source
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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