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Series 7
Photographs,
1909-1990s
Boxes 25 - 26 and 29
Scope and Content Note
This series includes photographs of Louise Thompson Patterson alone (1909-1960s) and with other individuals, including William L. Patterson, Angela Davis, Matthew Crawford, Beah Richards, and Margaret Wilkerson (1917-1994). Also present are travel photographs, including Louise Thompson and other individuals on trips to The U.S.S.R. (1932), Paris (1937), Spain (1937), Uzbekistan (1960), and East Germany (1972). There are also photographs of family members (early 1900s-1983) and photographs of other individuals, including Mary McLeod Bethune, Angela Davis, Beah Richards, and Claude Lightfoot (1931-1971).
Arrangement Note
Arranged in chronological order.
| Louise Thompson Patterson photographs | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1 | Louise Thompson with pigtails and double-breasted coat, ca. 1909 |
| 25 | 2 | Louise Thompson at podium, ca. 1920s |
| 25 | 3 | Louise Thompson, portrait in oval mat with Lula Brown Thompson facing, ca. 1920s |
| 25 | 4 | Louise Thompson on steps of building with rounded archway, ca. 1920s |
| 25 | 5 | Louise Thompson, graduation photograph, ca. 1923 |
| 25 | 6 | Louise Thompson in white hat, Berkeley graduation, 1923 |
| 25 | 7 | Louise Thompson with her first car, ca. 1923 |
| 25 | 8 | Louise Thompson, portrait, looking directly at camera, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 9 | Louise Thompson, portrait with hands on chin, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 10 | Louise Thompson at podium, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 11 | Louise Thompson, flower pin and square earrings, portraits, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 12 | Louise Thompson, portrait, James L. Allen, photographer, ca. 1940s |
| 25 | 13 | Louise Thompson Patterson, passport photograph, 1960s |
| Louise Thompson Patterson with others | ||
| 25 | 14 | Louise Thompson with Dorothy Fisher, ca. 1917 |
| 25 | 15 | Louise Thompson with Dorothy Spencer, California, ca. 1920s |
| 25 | 16 | Louise Thompson with unidentified man, California, ca. 1920s |
| 25 | 17 | Louise Thompson hiking with three unidentified individuals, rear shot, ca. 1920 |
| 25 | 18 | Louise Thompson with many individuals, California, ca. early 1920s [1 of 2] |
| 25 | 19 | Louise Thompson with many individuals, California, ca. early 1920s [2 of 2] |
| 25 | 20 | Louise Thompson with three women in white dresses, ca. early 1920s |
| 25 | 21 | Louise Thompson hiking with seven unidentified individuals, ca. early 1920s |
| 25 | 22 | Louise Thompson with Harry Heywood and unidentified man with round glasses, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 23 | Louise Thompson clutching purse, with two unidentified men standing nearby, ca. 1930s |
| 25 | 24 | "Grace and Louise," color photograph, 1960 |
| 25 | 25 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Evelyn (Nebby) Crawford, Margaret Burnham, and unidentified individuals at New York demonstration, ca. 1965 |
| 25 | 26 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Alice Childress, Sallye Davis (Angela Davis's mother) rally in New York City to free Angela Davis, ca. early 1970s |
| 25 | 27 | Shawn Walker photographs, including photographs of Louise Thompson Patterson with unidentified individuals, William L. Patterson, Angela Davis, 1974 |
| 25 | 28 | Louise Thompson Patterson with unidentified individuals at "Jessica Mitford party," ca. 1978 |
| 25 | 29 | Louise Thompson Patterson with friends and family, including Matthew Crawford, Frances Crawford, William L. Patterson, Mary Louise Patterson, ca. 1978 |
| 25 | 30 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Matthew Crawford and unidentified individuals, Langston Hughes Project, ca. 1980s |
| 25 | 31 | Louise Thompson Patterson with friends at her birthday (82nd) party, given by Alex Johnson, Bronx, New York, September 1983 |
| 25 | 32 | Louise Thompson Patterson with friends at her birthday (83rd) party, Bronx, New York, September 22,1984 |
| 25 | 33 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Dottie K., 1984 |
| 25 | 34 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Ida Jackson and Marvin Poston, honorees at University of California (Berkeley), October 1984 |
| 25 | 35 | Louise Thompson Patterson with friends at Welcome Home party at University of California (Berkeley), including photographs of Beah Richards, 1984 |
| 25 | 36 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Margaret Wilkerson, Verdell Burdine, Otto Rutherford, Beverly John in Portland, Oregon, 2 June 1988 |
| 25 | 37 | Louise Thompson Patterson in Brooklyn, New York, before her departure to California pictured with Thelma Perkins and Larry Perkins, Jesse Scott Campbell, Joyce Prestwidge, Keith Baird, Dorothy Hunton, Vicki Garvin, Dorothy Burnham, Carmen Alves, Grace Bassett and Ted Bassett |
| 25 | 38 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Matthew Crawford, Frances Crawford, and unidentified individual, ca. 1990s |
| 25 | 39 | Louise Thompson Patterson receiving the Fannie Lou Hamer Award, University of California (Berkeley), [including photographs of Margaret Wilkerson, June Jordan, and Barbara Christian], 1991 |
| 25 | 40 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Beah Richards, Mary Louise Patterson, Evelyn (Nebby) Crawford and others at her birthday (92nd) party 1993 |
| 25 | 41 | Louise Thompson Patterson with family and friends at her birthday (93rd) party [Oakland, California], 1994 |
| 25 | 42 | Louise Thompson Patterson with unidentified individuals at birthday party, and miscellaneous photographs, n.d. |
| 25 | 43 | Louise Thompson Patterson wearing sunglasses and seated with unidentified individuals, n.d. |
| Travel photographs | ||
| 25 | 44 | U.S.S.R, [including photographs of Louise Thompson, Langston Hughes, and Alain Locke], 1932 |
| 25 | 45 | Louise Thompson in group photograph of World Congress Against Racism and Anti Semitism, Paris, 1937 |
| 25 | 46 | Louise Thompson sitting on ground in park with two women and child, [Paris, 1937?] |
| 25 | 47 | Louise Thompson shaking hands with unidentified man in crowd, [Paris, 1937?] |
| 25 | 48 | Louise Thompson with unidentified individuals departing or arriving from trip, [Europe, 1937?] |
| 29 | 1 | Spain, including snapshots of ruins of bombing; unidentified children, some in Loyalist salute; military officers and vehicles, 1937 |
| 29 | 2 | Massachusetts, July 1950 |
| 29 | 3 | Uzbekistan, including photographs of Louise Thompson Patterson with Lily Golden, a translator, and other unidentified individuals; signing books; taking notes; and posing with groups of children, summer, ca. 1960 |
| 29 | 4 | Uzbekistan, including photographs of Louise Thomson Patterson having tea with unidentified individuals, walking in the show, touring factory operation and medical facility, winter, ca. 1960s |
| BV1 | Photograph album, Uzbekistan, ca. 1960s | |
| 29 | 5 | African students at Patrice Lumumba Friendship University, student library, (Moscow), 1960 |
| 29 | 6 | East Germany, photographs of Louise Thompson Patterson and unidentified man, 1972 |
| 29 | 7 | [Trip to Arizona, 1990?], color snapshots of scenery and buildings |
| Family photographs | ||
| 26 | 1 | Lula Brown Thompson, exterior photograph with palm trees in background, early 1900s |
| 26 | 2 | Louise Thompson with Lula Brown Thompson, Evelyn Graves and two of Evelyn's nieces, ca. 1910s |
| 26 | 3 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Mary Louise Patterson, 1943 |
| 26 | 4 | Mary Louise Patterson, September 1943 |
| 26 | 5 | Mary Louise Patterson, ca. 1945 |
| 26 | 6 | Mary Louise Patterson, Louise Thompson and William L. Patterson, mid 1940s |
| 26 | 7 | Louise Thompson Patterson with William L. Patterson, [b/w photograph], 1960 |
| 26 | 8 | William L. Patterson with group of unidentified individuals at speakers' table, birthday (75th) celebration, New York City, August 1966 |
| 26 | 9 | Louise Thompson Patterson with William L. Patterson, (color photograph), August 1969 |
| 26 | 10 | William L. Patterson with Louise Thompson Patterson, Claude Lightfoot, Rev. John Hill, and Sallye Davis at his birthday (80th) celebration, Chicago, 1971 |
| 26 | 11 | Louise Thompson Patterson with Mary Louise Patterson and infant, February 6, 1983 |
| 26 | 12 | William L. Patterson with unidentified men, various dates |
| Others | ||
| 26 | 13 | The Burdine family (Washington and Oregon), 1915-ca. 1984 |
| 26 | 14 | Mary McLeod Bethune with Mrs. Barrett and M. Day, "American Seminar, Congregational Education Society," Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, ca. 1931 |
| 26 | 15 | Langston Hughes on the beach with his dog, Greta, [holograph note and signature on verso], ca. 1920s |
| 26 | 16 | Unidentified man with hat in his hand, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, mid 1920s |
| 26 | 17 | Yuri Gagarin (astronaut), Nikita Khrushchev and other Russian figures, ca. 1970s |
| 26 | 18 | Angela Davis with unidentified individuals at rally, ca 1972 |
| 26 | 19 | Angela Davis with unidentified individuals at rally, Berlin, 9-14 September 1972 |
| 26 | 20 | Frances Willis, (Pasadena), ca. 1978 |
| 26 | 21 | Beah Richards with Louise Thompson Patterson and with "Buster" [?], ca. 1980 |
| 26 | 22 | Bert MacLeech and Pearl MacLeech at the Mason's house in Beverly Hills, 1982 |
| 26 | 23 | Beah Richards at birthday (71st) party, California, 1991 |
| 26 | 24 | The Reid family, n.d. |
| 26 | 25 | Claude Lightfoot, n.d. |
| 26 | 26 | Unidentified individuals in civil rights demonstrations, n.d. |
| 26 | 27 | Unidentified individuals, various dates |
| 26 | 28 | Miscellaneous negatives |
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