James Bailes, excluded from voting registration on the basis of illiteracy, with wife and child, 1935

Item Overview

Title

James Bailes, excluded from voting registration on the basis of illiteracy, with wife and child, 1935

Date Created

August 21, 1935

Date

1935-08-21

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The related article sites a 1931 California law that required applicants pass a literacy test to obtain a voter registration card. Bailes feared that his lacking a registration card would hamper his ability to attain a job under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Photograph of part-time truck driver James Bailes, with his wife Mary and daughter Carol Jean, at their Los Angeles apartment. The family gathers on one chair. Six-year old Carol Jean studies an illustrated page from the New Yorker magazine, while Mary comforts James who looks down at a bundle of folded papers held in his hands.
This photograph appears with the article, "His Relief Status Imperiled: Illiteracy Case Fought. Third-Grade Education of Man on Work Relief Perils Status," Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1935: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1748. Carol Jean Bailes - 6, Mr. & Mrs. James Bailes. S.E.R.A Worker, 8/21/35.
Text from newspaper caption: Mapping his defense against illiteracy charges by the voting registration office, James Bailes is shown at home with his 6-year-old daughter, Carol Jean, and his wife.
Handwritten on negative: 133. Carol Jean Bailes - 6, James Bailes, Mrs. Bailes, 8/21/35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Bailes, Carol Jean, b. 1928 or 29
Bailes, James, b. 1907 or 08
Bailes, Mary, b. 1909 or 10

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Literacy--California--Los Angeles
Employment--California--Los Angeles
Voter registration--California--Los Angeles