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Title: Twenty-one-year-old lawyer Ruth August Bard, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 20, 1935
1935-12-20
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
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.
Ruth sports a short blonde haircut and holds a legal document in one hand while raising her left hand in oath.
Photograph appears with the article, "Girl Wins New Honor as Lawyer," Los Angeles Times, 03 Dec 1935: A3.
In September Southwestern University Law School graduate Ruth August Bard became one of the youngest female lawyers at the age of 21, and as of yesterday was admitted to practice in the Federal court.
Handwritten on negative: 151 151 Ruth August Bard 12/1/35
Text from newspaper caption: Ruth August Bard, 21 years of age, one of the nation's youngest women practicing attorneys, yesterday was admitted to practice law in Federal courts.
Text from negative sleeve: 4124 - Ruth August Bard - 21 Attorney 12/1/35 [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13130
ark:/21198/zz002hn8fd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Bard, Ruth August, 1914-2004
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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