African-American artists of Los Angeles : William Pajaud : oral history transcript / interviewed by Karen Anne Mason ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

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African-American artists of Los Angeles : William Pajaud : oral history transcript / interviewed by Karen Anne Mason ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

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Pajaud discusses his childhood in New Orleans, Nashville, and Chicago; art education at Xavier University, New Orleans; employment as a sign painter, painting neckties, selling watercolors; becoming Art Director for Golden State Life Insurance Company; the Tutor/Art Program; the Golden State Mutual Afro-American Art Collection.

Transcript: 1 v. (ix, 226 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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Mason, Karen Anne

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University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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Pajaud, William E., 1925-

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Artist and insurance executive William Etienne Pajaud, Jr. was born on August 3, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, William Etienne Pajaud, Sr., was a trumpet player and bandleader; his mother, Audrey DuCongé, a college professor of social work. Pajaud and his mother moved around in his youth, from Nashville to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and then to Tyler, Texas. He returned to New Orleans to attend Xavier University, where he graduated with his B.F.A. degree in 1946.Upon graduation, Paja...

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co.

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The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. was founded in 1925 on Central Ave. in Los Angeles by former Texas insurance agent William Nickerson Jr. and two partners; in 1945, Norman O. Houston succeeded Nickerson as company president, continuing the specialization of selling insurance to a lower income market often ignored by major insurers; three years after Ivan J. Houston became company chairman in 1980, Golden State handled $4.3 billion worth of insurance, employed 196 salaried workers, and ...