The Southwest Museum of the American Indian was a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, above the north-western bank of the Arroyo Seco canyon and stream. The museum is owned by the Autry Museum of the American West. Its collections deals mainly with Native Americans. It also had an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts.
Anne Wardrope Brigman was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America.
Viola Barry was an American silent film actress who starred in a number of films during the 1910s.
La Valera was a Spanish dancer of the early twentieth century.
Charles Henry Garoute was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 5, 1891, to January 5, 1903.
Henry Alexander Melvin was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from September 28, 1908 to December 1920.
Ira Francis Thompson was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from December 31, 1932, to August 4, 1937.
Nathaniel Parrish Conrey was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from October 1, 1935, to November 2, 1936. His 36 years on the bench place him among the longest serving judges in California history.
Edith Monica Jordan Gardner was an American educator, specialized in history and an activist, including woman's suffrage and in the Sierra Club. She was president of the Southern California Social Science Association, Town and Gown Club, Cornell Women's Club of Northern California, Stanford Woman's Club, and the University of California branch of the Equal Suffrage League, among others. She was the head of the History Department at the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, chairman of the Department of Legislation Oakland Forum, and one of the earliest members of the Sierra Club.
Sadie Chandler Cole was an American singer, music educator, and civil rights activist based in southern California.
Laura Guerite, was an American actress, dancer, singer, comedian, playwright, and vaudeville performer. She was also an enthusiastic boatwoman and a licensed pilot.
Rosario Fernández Guerrero was a Spanish dancer and pantomimist with an international career. Although she was not a singer, she is most often associated with the role of Carmen.
Henriette Blanke-Belcher, also known as Henrietta Blanke-Belcher and later as Henriette B. Melson, was an American composer of popular music, especially waltzes and ragtime tunes.
This timeline provides an overview of the political movement for women's suffrage in California. Women's suffrage became legal with the passage of Proposition 4 in 1911 yet not all women were enfranchised as a result of this legislation.
Fredrick Crissman Wheeler was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member who was active in labor-union affairs and state and municipal politics.
Sarah Elizabeth Pratt Grinnell was an American writer, clubwoman, and naturalist, based in Pasadena, California.
Eleanor Gertrude Gogin was an American educator, and a national secretary of the YWCA, in charge of the organization's programming for girls and young women from 1918 to 1927.
Luisa Espinel, born Luisa Ronstadt, was an American singer, dancer, and actress. She toured, taught, performed in vaudeville, and appeared in a movie with Marlene Dietrich.
Grisella de Courcy Kingsland was an American actress based in San Francisco.
Helena Lewyn was an American pianist, composer, and piano teacher.
