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Register of the California Eagle Photograph Collection, Late 1800s-Late 1950s
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Series Description

 

Charlotta Bass

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of Mrs. Bass can be found throughout the collection. But, the Charlotta Bass series contain photographs that are personal to and of her. For example, the photographs of Jessie Mae Brown, Helen Gahagan Douglas and Photo Greetings are signed photos to Mrs. Bass. The Political Campaigns, an integral part of Mrs. Bass's life, are divorced from her role as a journalist. Many of the photos in the Charlotta Bass series include photographs of friends and her activities with them.
 

General

Scope and Content Note

The General series are photographs that were probably used by the California Eagle for feature stories. Such as the Hollywood Ten or those of the Civic Leaders. The photograph that is most used is for reports, monographs, and exhibits is "This Tract is Exclusive and Restricted." Segregated housing in Los Angeles. Early 1950s.
 

Individuals

Scope and Content Note

The photographs in the Individuals series include those of Paul Robeson and a young Tom Bradley, former Mayor of Los Angeles. Other photographs of individuals from the Los Angeles African-American community include Elbert Hudson, President of Broadway Savings and Loan, Leon Washington, publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, and Gladys Owens Smith, great granddaughter of Biddy Mason. The California Eagle championed liberal causes for which there are photographs of well-known liberals such as Helen Gahagan Douglas, Leo Gallagher, Pettis Perry, and Pete Seeger.
 

Labor

Scope and Content Note

The Labor series include many black workers on the job and on the picket line in Los Angeles. See Picket Lines, Work, Red Caps, Group Photographs, and Work.
 

Social Causes

Scope and Content Note

The California Eagle was one of the few papers in Los Angeles that was sympathetic to progressive issues. The photographs represented in the series Social Causes reflect some of the struggles of progressives during the Cold War era of the 1950s such as the "LA 21" Smith Act Case. Included in this section is a photograph of the Laws Family. The Laws Family were ordered to leave their home under the racial-restrictive covenants of the 1940s and 1950s. They wouldn't leave and were jailed for several days until the California Supreme Court released them on a writ of habeas corpus. Their attorney was John McTernan, a Los Angeles civil liberties lawyer.
 

Society

Scope and Content Note

The last in the series is Society. Most of the photographs are of African Americans and the cultural life of that community. The photographs date from the late 1800s. The photographs that were taken in the 1930s-1950s were probably used in the society section. Often, the photographs are of the elite of the Los Angeles African American community and their social functions. These urban elite are featured in Portraits and Social Functions. Publicity includes photographs of entertainers probably used for advertising local gigs in South Central Los Angeles.

Container List

 

CHARLOTTA BASS

Folder 1

Banquet

Folder 2

Jessie Mae Brown, Helen Gahagan Douglas

Folder 3

Celebration

Folder 4

Civic Functions

Folder 5

Family

Folder 6

Social Functions

Folder 7

Negative, Print (early 1900s).

Folder 8

Photo Greetings

Folder 9

Political Campaigns

Folder 10

Portraits

Folder 11

Scrapbook

Folder 12

Self

Folder 13

Trip to the Soviet Union (1950s?).

 

GENERAL

Folder 14

African American Women Professionals

Folder 15

Angels Flight. 1960s.

Folder 16

Birthday Celebration

Folder 17

The California Eagle and Staff 1920s?, 1932. (Print, negative, slide)

Folder 18

Civic Functions

Folder 19

Civic Leaders

Folder 20

Civil Rights Congress. 1950s.

Folder 21

Civil Rights Congress Citizens Jury. 1952.

Folder 22

Eagle Celebration. April 3, 1947.

Folder 23

Miscellaneous Photographs and Snapshots

Folder 24

Highlander Folk School. 1950s.

Folder 25

Hollywood Ten. 1947.

Folder 26

Houses

Folder 27

International Book Shop. San Francisco, (1940s?).

Folder 28

International Labor Defense. San Francisco, 1927.

Folder 29

Independent Progressive Party. Second Birthday Celebration.

Folder 30

Military

Folder 31

Negatives

Folder 32

Printing Plates

Folder 33

Progressive Party. Late 1940s.

Folder 34

School Group Photographs. Early and Late 1900s.

Folder 35

"This Tract is Exclusive and Restricted." Segregated Housing in Los Angeles. (1950s?). Copy negative and print.

Folder 36

Trains. Print and Negatives.

Folder 37

War? Photographs

Folder 38

WPA Theatre. Photographs form "Arena" by Halle Flanagan.

 

INDIVIDUALS

Folder 39

Reuben W. Borough

Folder 40

Joseph and Edna Brock

Folder 41

Edmund G. "Pat" Brown

Folder 42

Charles Carr

Folder 43

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Folder 44

Leo Gallagher

Folder 45

Elbert Hudson, President Broadway Savings and Loan. 1940s.

Folder 46

Hattie McDaniel

Folder 47

Marilyn Miller

Folder 48

Pettis Perry

Folder 49

Paul Robeson

Folder 50

Paul Robeson, Tom Bradley, et al. Print, Slide, Negative.

Folder 51

Mrs. Paul Robeson

Folder 52

Paul Robeson, Jr's Children. 1958.

Folder 53

Eleanor Roosevelt

Folder 54

Pete Seeger

Folder 55

Gladys Owens Smith (Great granddaughter of Biddy Mason)

Folder 56

William "Bill" Taylor

Folder 57

Henry Wallace

Folder 58

Leon Washington

 

LABOR

Folder 59

Eldon Manufacturing Company

Folder 60

Group Photographs

Folder 61

Harvill Corporation

Folder 62

Labor Day? Parade. 1947.

Folder 63

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers

Folder 64

National Automobile School. Early 1920s

Folder 65

Picket Lines

Folder 66

Red Caps

Folder 67

Trona, California

Folder 68

Work

 

SOCIAL CAUSES

Folder 69

General

Folder 70

"Ban the Bomb" Peace Demonstration

Folder 71

"LA 21" Smith Act Case

Folder 72

The Laws Family

Folder 73

Poverty

Folder 74

Smith Act

Folder 75

Robert Wesley Wells

 

SOCIETY

Folder 76

Portraits

Folder 77

Publicity

Folder 78

Social Functions

Series Description
Charlotta Bass
General
Individuals
Labor
Social Causes
Society
Container List
CHARLOTTA BASS
GENERAL
INDIVIDUALS
LABOR
SOCIAL CAUSES
SOCIETY
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