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Title: Buron Fitts and family cast their votes, Los Angeles, 1929-1933
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1929-1933]
1929/1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
District Attorney Buron Fitts with wife, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and great-niece (whom they later adopted as a daughter), Mary Lou Spear, at a polling station. Mr. & Mrs. Fitts drop their ballots into the "General Tickets" ballot box. One woman sits with records book, while another woman and man stand watching.
Text from negative sleeve: Fitts, Buron.
Handwritten on negative: Fitts + family.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2351
ark:/21198/zz002ddb1s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Political participation--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Voting--California--Los Angeles
Ballots
Ballot boxes
Polling places
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Mary Lou Spear, 1926-2008
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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