Civic activist Louise Ward Watkins, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Civic activist Louise Ward Watkins, 1934
- Date Created
- 1934
- Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Civic activist Louise Ward Watkins was president of the Friday Morning Club from 1931 to 1934. Watkins, a Progressive Conservative, was involved with numerous civic organizations, and in 1938 became the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate in California. However she also opposed women in higher education.
Photograph of Louise Ward Watkins standing at a table piled with files and an organizer, holding a pen and papers. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Louise Ward Watkins
Text from negative sleeve: Watkins, Louise Ward Mrs., 1934
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Watkins, Louise Ward, 1890-1974
- Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles
Activists--American--California--Los Angeles
Civic leaders--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4271
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cq1nc
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .