Nonagenarian Julia M. Ely with her radio, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Nonagenarian Julia M. Ely with her radio, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 27, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Even though Mrs. Ely has seven sons and grandsons currently serving or retired from various military positions, including military instructors and aviators, this will be the first election that she is voting in via absentee ballot.
Photograph appears with the article, "First Vote To Aid G.O.P.," Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr 1936: 9.
Julia sits in a wicker chair adjusting a knob on her radio.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Julia M. Ely, who has never voted during her ninety-nine years, is going to help the Republican party by casting a ballot next month, she announced yesterday. She's the mother of one general and two colonels of the United States Army.
Text from negative sleeve: 1909 - Mrs. Julia M. Ely - Age 99 War Mother 8/27/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935
Handwritten on negative: 110 110 Mrs Julia M Ely - 99 /27/35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Radios
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Voting--California--Los Angeles

Names

Ely, Julia M., b. 1836

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image