Names: Bullock, Georgia P., 1878-1957 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis holds a box with the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. The mortgage was set on fire by Gloria Swanson, silent film actress. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard. James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Reported in "MYSTERIOUS DEATH NOTE SENT JUDGE: Mrs. Bullock Also Trailed by Auto for Some Time; Inquiry Launched," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1927: A1.
Date:: [August 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Judge Bullock (left) sits at the judge's chambers beside Judge Whitehead (right).
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Margaret Harpstrite and Marie Cousland founded the Iota Tau Tau legal sorority at Southwest University in 1925. Margaret Harpstrite and Marie Cousland were attorneys and Dolly Pritchard was a law student.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Margaret Harpstrite and Marie Cousland founded the Iota Tau Tau legal sorority at Southwest University in 1925. Margaret Harpstrite and Marie Cousland were attorneys and Dolly Pritchard was a law student.
Date:: [circa 1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Judge Georgia P. Bullock seated behind her bench in court. The front of her desk is decorated with a greenery garland and there are two floral arrangements on each side. An unidentified man stands in front of the bench.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: New elected Judge Georgia P. Bullock stands at her bench, amid four large bouquets of flowers. Reported in "FIVE NEW JURISTS TAKE OVER DUTIES: Three Superior, One Police Judge and Justice Inducted," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jan. 1925: A1.
Date:: January 5, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Divorce Hearing Features Feminine Cast: Superior Court Trial Conducted by Women." Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 1935.
Date:: September 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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