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Title: Helen Gahagan Douglas and other Roosevelt supporters
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Stewart, Lucille
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Helen Gahagan was a successful Broadway performer who, in 1931, married actor Melvyn Douglas. Elected in 1944, Gahagan Douglas was the third woman elected to Congress from California. She served California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat from 1945-1951.
Future congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (center) sits around a radio with other supporters of incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt awaiting the results of the 1940 election.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088883
Lucille Stewart Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b13_f3_i59_N
CARL0004964943
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123603
Subject: Douglas, Helen Gahagan,--1900-1980
Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Elections
Women legislators--United States
Legislators--United States
Presidents--Campaigns--United States

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