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Photograph caption dated June 6, 1955 reads "Mrs. Lillian McCann, 75, of 14623 3/4 Sylvan St., Van Nuys, ponders how to get to polling place only a few doors away. Mrs. McCann, confined to walker with broken hip, has never missed voting opportunity since given franchise in 1920. Friends later arrived to help her negotiate steps."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Women--California--Los Angeles Older people--California--Los Angeles Walkers (Orthopedic apparatus)--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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