Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Julia sits in a wicker chair adjusting a knob on her radio. Photograph appears with the article, "First Vote To Aid G.O.P.," Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr 1936: 9. Even though Mrs. Ely has seven sons and grandsons currently serving or retired from various military positions, including military instructors and aviators, this will be the first election that she is voting in via absentee ballot. Handwritten on negative: 110 110 Mrs Julia M Ely - 99 /27/35 Text from negative sleeve: 1909 - Mrs. Julia M. Ely - Age 99 War Mother 8/27/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Julia M. Ely, who has never voted during her ninety-nine years, is going to help the Republican party by casting a ballot next month, she announced yesterday. She's the mother of one general and two colonels of the United States Army.
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_8219 ark:/21198/zz002dg28f
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Radios Older people--California--Los Angeles Voting--California--Los Angeles Ely, Julia M., b. 1836
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