• Could the 12th Juror be behind here? - Trapac
  • Or was our 12th lady sitting here? - Trapac
  • Our 11th lady has been swamped by hats! - Trapac
  • I like it!! :D - judit.
  • Yes, fabulous hat - Caroleaxium

First woman jury, Los Angeles (LOC)

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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10079

Call Number: LC-B2- 2354-15

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    fivefootview, Aunt Selma, Dendroica cerulea, aly the bird, and 62 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. pennylrichardsca (60 months ago | reply)

    If this is the first all-woman jury in Los Angeles, the forewoman was Nora Danforth. Other members were Florence bohan, Nina Cole, Anna Dillon, Hazel Norris, Bonna Meyers, Jane Hayes, Cora Brooks, Hattie Howard, Alice Walters, and Adeline Merry, according to the New York Times report on 12 November 1911. (They heard the case of a speeding motorcyclist.)

  3. The Library of Congress (59 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for the information! We’ll look into it.

  4. Trapac (48 months ago | reply)

    My goodness, they look formidable!

  5. Lú_ (48 months ago | reply)

    The "12 angry women" tag is brilliant.

  6. Trapac (48 months ago | reply)

    This is *so* interesting - I've had a look, and i can count eleven people there - just. (The presence of the 11th person seems to be indicated only be the top of her dark hat right at the back on the far right of the frame. Our twelfth lady seems to have vacated the chair on the left, leaving only a coat/cape? draped there to indicate her presence.

    Where did she go?

    Could she have been the photographer?

    Or is she in fact just peeking/hiding behind the extra-ordinarily large black hat of the lady sitting in the front/foreground of the image? :)

  7. BigBean (48 months ago | reply)

    Hi, this photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

  8. lmharnisch (48 months ago | reply)

    Actually, according to the Los Angeles Times, this is the first all-woman jury in *California* and they acquitted the editor of the Watts News of printing indecent, obscene language, Nov. 2, 1911, via ProQuest, published Nov. 3, 1911.

  9. The Library of Congress (37 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.

  10. rik-1986 (32 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!

  11. tsienni (31 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Humanistic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  12. This photo was invited and added to the Humanistic group.

  13. Maria Emanuela (10 months ago | reply)

    Boy o boy, what an interested jury!

  14. This photo was invited and added to the Picturing Public Service group.

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