Bert McDonald and mother Mrs. Watson McDonald at University of Southern California Law graduation, June 1924

(USC DC Image)

Bert McDonald and mother Mrs. Watson McDonald at University of Southern California Law graduation, June 1924

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

African-American Bert McDonald and his mother, Mrs. Watson McDonald, at University of Southern California Law School graduation, Los Angeles, June 1924. Bert, who was USC's first African-American Law School graduate, is wearing cap and gown. His mother is wearing a dark velvet dress with hat. The photograph was taken outside on the sidewalk near some steps.

Asset Metadata

Title Bert McDonald and mother Mrs. Watson McDonald at University of Southern California Law graduation, June 1924

Subject Academic costume (lcsh), African Americans (lcsh), African Americans--History--1877-1964 (lcsh), College graduates (lcsh), educational facilities (adlf), McDonald, Bert (subject), University of Southern California. Law School (naf), Watson McDonald, Mrs. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924-06

Type images

Format photograph : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat)

Source 1999: Black History Exhibit (subcollection), Library Exhibits Collection (collection)

Date Created 1924-06

Contributor Joseph, Andrée M. (compiler)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 740-5900; fax (213) 740-2343.

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m7

Identifier exbt-BHE-007 (filename), BHE-007 (identifying number), exbt-m30 (legacy collection record id), exbt-c54-582 (legacy record id), exbt-m7 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 582

Unique identifier UC1608044

Legacy Identifier exbt-BHE-007.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.4 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
26.4 cm × 41.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title 1999: Black History Exhibit

Description Black History Month Exhibit, Doheny Memorial Library, Spring 1999

Linked assets

1999: Black History Exhibit

Conceptually similar

Mrs. Watson McDonald, "The Mother", cover of periodical, The Crisis, March 1914

1938 graduation picture in front of University of Southern California Law School

Business card for Crispus A. Wright, attorney at law

Warner R. Wright introducing his daughter, Brenda, at Cotillion

Bachelor of Laws diploma for Edwin Lucius Jefferson

University of Southern California Law School, 1938

Juanita Miller, ca.1930's

Mrs. Warner Wright

"Away from studies," photograph of University of Southern California students Edwin Jefferson, Mattie Pearl Hawkins, Warner Wright, and Willia B. Nickerson.

Loren Miller, ca. 1930's

Martin Luther King at dedication of Connor/Johnson Mortuary

Warner Wright, patriarch of the Wright family

Holiday party congratulating Edwin Jefferson on his appointment as Los Angeles County municipal judge

Photographs of Edwin Jefferson and Mattie Pearl Hawkins at Venice Beach [?], California, mid 1920's.

Letter, 1944 March 16, Los Angeles, to Edwin L. Jefferson, Los Angeles, California

California 62nd District (Los Angeles) Assemblyman Augustus Hawkins and two newspaper clippings on race relations

Mission to Moscow, aboard the Europa, 1932. A group of African-American film makers on board a ship to the U.S.S.R.

Staff and internes, 1933-1934, Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Postcard of the Dunbar (Somerville) Hotel, Los Angeles, ca.1938

Similar tones

View images with similar tones