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Title: Norman Houston receives award
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: On the left Norman O. Houston (1893-1981), a prominent insurance executive, receives the Award of Merit and Honorary Fellowship of the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute for outstanding contributions to the arts, humanities and better race relations. Dr. Rufus B. Von KleinSmid (right), USC chancellor, makes the presentation. Norman Houston is considered a pioneer of African American enterprise, having co-founded Golden State Insurance with William Nickerson. Photograph dated March 24, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064006
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3404
CARL0000068611
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27153
Subject: Houston, Norman O
Kleinsmid, Rufus Bernhard von,--1875-1964
Awards--California--Los Angeles
Insurance executives--United States
Businesspeople--United States
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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