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All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon. Photograph appeares in the Los Angeles Sentinel, "Plan National Musicians Convention," 3 Mar.: 1949, A2 Text from newspaper caption: Commissioners confer -- The Central Colony of the LosAngeles Planning Commissioners for the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., met at a dinner meeting here last Friday night. Plans for the annual musicians convention, slated for Los Angles August 21-26, were discussed. Shown above seated. left to right, are: Mrs. Evelyn Williams, Cleveland Kelly, Mrs. Lilly T. Hogue, Albert McNeil, state organizer; Mrs. Lillian Peters, Washington, D.C.; Walter Miller, and Mrs. Blanche Porter. Standing, starting at the left are Charles Williams, Horace Pettibone Clark, Jr., George Ramsey, of San Diego; Miss Gwendolyn Herriel, Cortez peters, Washington, D.C.' Rev. George Garner, regional director; Dr. H. Hamilton Williams, Miss Eleanor Richards, secretary local branch; "Doc" Young, Sentinel sports editor, and Hester Orticke. [The person identified as Hester Orticke is a man, and is possibly Lester Lionel Orticke, who lived in Los Angeles at this time.]
African American musicians Ramsey, George A. (George Alvetta), 1889-1963 National Association of Negro Musicians (U.S.) Richards, Eleanor Peters, Lillian Peters, Cortez Hogue, Lilly T., 1889-1977 Orticke, Lester Lionel, 1922-1966 Harriel, Gwendolyn C. Becks, 1923-1952 Porter, Blanche Williams, Charles Henry, d. 1966 Miller, Walter Kelly, Cleveland Clark, Horace Pettibone, Jr., 1919-1997 McNeil, Albert Williams, H. Hamilton, 1911-1981 Garner, George, 1892-1971
Source
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
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