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

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Two photographs. The first photograph is of African-American Edwin Jefferson in a bathing suit under a large beach umbrella, laying on a towel possibly at Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1920's. In the right of the picture is the ocean. A building is visible in the distant background. The second photograph is of African-American Mattie Pearl Hawkins in the same locale. She is wearing a white dress. Many buildings are visible to the right and in the background.

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

Subject African Americans (lcsh), African Americans--History--1877-1964 (lcsh), Bathing suits (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Beaches--California--Los Angeles (lcsh), Hawkins, Mattie Pearl (subject), Jefferson, Edwin Lucius (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1923/1927

Type images

Format photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm. (Jefferson); photograph : b&w ; 12 x 8 cm. (Hawkins) (aacr2), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1923/1927

Contributor Edwin L. Jefferson papers, 1941-1989 (provenance), 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-m10

Identifier exbt-BHE-010 (filename), BHE-010 (identifying number), exbt-m30 (legacy collection record id), exbt-c54-533 (legacy record id), exbt-m10 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 533

Unique identifier UC1608046

Legacy Identifier exbt-BHE-010.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.1 in × 7.6 in at 300dpi
23.3 cm × 19.4 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

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