Twenty-one-year-old lawyer Ruth August Bard, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Twenty-one-year-old lawyer Ruth August Bard, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 20, 1935

Date

1935-12-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Ruth sports a short blonde haircut and holds a legal document in one hand while raising her left hand in oath.
Photograph appears with the article, "Girl Wins New Honor as Lawyer," Los Angeles Times, 03 Dec 1935: A3.
In September Southwestern University Law School graduate Ruth August Bard became one of the youngest female lawyers at the age of 21, and as of yesterday was admitted to practice in the Federal court.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 151 151 Ruth August Bard 12/1/35
Text from newspaper caption: Ruth August Bard, 21 years of age, one of the nation's youngest women practicing attorneys, yesterday was admitted to practice law in Federal courts.
Text from negative sleeve: 4124 - Ruth August Bard - 21 Attorney 12/1/35 [stamped:] Dec 20 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Bard, Ruth August, 1914-2004

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lawyers--California--Los Angeles