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Title: Helen Gahagan Douglas with group
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Stewart, Lucille
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1944
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.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas poses with three men at an unidentified political event.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088370
Lucille Stewart Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b12_f3_i12; GPC_b13_f3_i12_N
CARL0004963470
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123549
Subject: Douglas, Helen Gahagan,--1900-1980
Women legislators--United States
Legislators--United States

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