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Title
Buron Fitts and family cast their votes, Los Angeles, 1929-1933
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 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.
Handwritten on negative: Fitts + family.
Text from negative sleeve: Fitts, Buron.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2351
ark:/21198/zz002ddb1s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Polling places
Voting--California--Los Angeles
Political participation--California--Los Angeles
Ballot boxes
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Ballots
Fitts, Mary Lou Spear, 1926-2008
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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