US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Civic activist Louise Ward Watkins was president of the Friday Morning Club from 1931 to 1934. Watkins, a Progressive Conservative, was involved with numerous civic organizations, and in 1938 became the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate in California. However she also opposed women in higher education. Photograph of Louise Ward Watkins standing at a table piled with files and an organizer, holding a pen and papers. Handwritten on negative: Louise Ward Watkins Text from negative sleeve: Watkins, Louise Ward Mrs., 1934
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4271 ark:/21198/zz002cq1nc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles Activists--American--California--Los Angeles Civic leaders--California--Los Angeles Watkins, Louise Ward, 1890-1974
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