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Five female lawyers and judges at a meeting of the National Association of Women Lawyers, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Five female lawyers and judges at a meeting of the National Association of Women Lawyers, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 15, 1935
1935-07-15
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.
Five female lawyers and judges at a meeting of the National Association of Women Lawyers. Wellman, Matthews, and Ruppa wear ribbons that read, in part, "National Association Women Lawyers." In the background, there are other women gathered, and in the far background there is a man sitting on a bench.
Text from negative sleeve: 1272- Rosalind Bates (Pres. Southern Calif Women Lawyers Council), Gretchen Wellman (Calif Vice Pres), Judge Oda Faulconer (Calif. Hostess), Burnita S. Mathews [sic] (National Pres), Belle Bartes [sic] Ruppa (Wisconsin National Secretary.(taken at their annual convention 7/15/35) [Stamped:] Jul 22 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Sex equality in the legal profession was the keynote of these women lawyers' first session in conjunction with the American Bar Association conclave here yesterday. Left to right, they are Rosalind Bates, president of the Southern California Council; Gretchen Wellman, vice-president; Oda Faulconer, California hostess; Burnita S. Matthews, national president, Washington D.C.; Belle Bartes [sic] Ruppa, national secretary, Wisconsin.
This photograph appears with the article, "Leaders at Feminine Law Group Convention: Women Lawyers Demand Sex-Equality in Work," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul. 1935: 2.
Handwritten on negative: L to R Rosalind Bates, Gretchen Wellman, Judge Oda Faulconer, Burnita S. Matthews, Belle Bartes [sic] Ruppa - 7/15/35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10223
ark:/21198/zz002hb51q
Subject: Judges--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
National Association of Women Lawyers
Wellman, Gretchen, 1887-1968
Bates, Rosalind Goodrich, 1894-1961
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988
Faulconer, Oda, 1884-1943
Ruppa, Belle Bortin, 1898-1981
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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