Bain News Service,, publisher.
First woman jury, Los Angeles
[November 1911] (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows the first all-woman jury in California who acquitted the
editor of the Watts News of printing indecent language, on Nov. 2,
1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 3, 1911)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Los Angeles
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10079
Call Number: LC-B2- 2354-15
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The Library of Congress 42 months ago | reply
Thank you all for your interest in this photo. Imharnisch, you are correct in your identification of it as the first all woman jury in California. The Los Angeles Times article you cite (Nov. 3, 1911) includes a very similar photo of the same women. We will update the information for the photo.
rik-1986 37 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called we're the people, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
tsienni 36 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Humanistic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Maria Emanuela 15 months ago | reply
Boy o boy, what an interested jury!