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Chapter 1: Image Credits
Florence Kahn, n.d.
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Florence Kahn with sons, Julius Kahn, Jr. and Conrad Kahn, 1910
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Florence Kahn attending the Congressional Baseball Game, May 1926
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Julius Kahn, 1914
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San Francisco Chronicle, 19 December 1924
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San Francisco Bulletin, 22 December 1924
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Jewish Tribune, 28 December 1928
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The women of the 71st Congress (1929–1931) pose on the Capitol steps. From left to right they are: (front row) Pearl Oldfield of Arkansas, Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, and Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois; (back row) Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Mary Norton of New Jersey, and Florence Kahn of California. 1929
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Committee on Military Affairs with Florence Kahn, 1931
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Representatives Florence Kahn and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, 1925
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Florence Kahn presiding over the House of Representatives, 1926
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, ca. 1960s
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U.S.N.S. General M.C. Meigs passes under the Golden Gate Bridge, ca. 1950
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, ca. 1980s
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Chapter 2: Image Credits
Salt Lake City, Utah, ca. 1870s
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Conrad Prag, 1865
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Mary Goldsmith Prag, 1865
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Florence and her brother, Jessie Prag, 1877
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Florence Prag, ca. 1880
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Florence Prag graduating class from Girls’ High School, San Francisco, California, 1883
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Florence Prag, 1884
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San Francisco, California, ca. 1880s
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Chapter 3: Image Credits
Florence Kahn, 1914
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Julius Kahn, 1894
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Julius Kahn, 1892
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San Francisco, California, ca. 1880
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Julius Kahn caricature, n.d.
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Gallery pass from the office of Representative Julius Kahn, 16 March 1909
Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Florence Kahn with sons, Julius Kahn, Jr. and Conrad Kahn, 1910
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Julius Kahn addressing a crowd, n.d.
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Julius Kahn and President Warren G. Harding, 1920
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Committee on Military Affairs with Julius Kahn, 1917
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Julius Kahn, 1914
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Julius Kahn in the House Office Building (later the Cannon House Office Building), ca. 1920
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“Julius Kahn Memorial Address,” 68th Cong., 2nd sess., House Doc. 672, 22 February 1925.
Chapter 4: Image Credits
San Francisco Chronicle, 19 December 1924
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San Francisco Chronicle, 19 December 1924
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Julius Kahn, n.d.
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San Francisco Bulletin, 22 December 1924
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Florence Kahn’s original election certificate, Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration
Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, Oil on canvas, John Oliver Buckley, 1996, Collection of the United States Senate
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Oil on canvas, Howard Chandler Christy, 1950, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Representative Pearl Oldfield of Arkansas, Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Representative Marian Clarke of New York, Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Representative Mae Nolan of California, Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Representative Effiegene Wingo of Arkansas, Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Representative Willa Eslick of Tennessee, Image courtesy of Tennessee State Library & Archives
Florence Kahn, 1929
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Chamber of U.S. House of Representatives, ca. 1920
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San Francisco Bulletin, 1 September 1926
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Map of Florence Kahn’s congressional district, created by Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, based on “Statutes of California Forty-Ninth Session of the Legislature, 1931”
San Francisco, California, business district, ca. 1922
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Chapter 5: Image Credits
North Beach from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, ca. 1940
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North Beach looking towards the financial district, San Francisco, California, ca. 1940
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A streetcar climbs California Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, ca. 1910
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Southern Pacific ferry boat plying between San Francisco and Oakland, California, ca. 1920
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A police officer escorts children at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Lombard Street, San Francisco, California, ca. 1940
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San Francisco, California, ca. 1922
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Original letter to Committee on Military Affairs Chairman John Q. Tilson from Florence Kahn, 13 March 1925, Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration
Committee on Military Affairs Hearing Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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Committee on Military Affairs with Florence Kahn, 1931
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San Francisco Chronicle, 19 December 1928
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Florence Kahn presiding over the House of Representatives, 1926
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Chapter 6: Image Credits
Florence Kahn leaving the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 3 December 1925
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North Beach, San Francisco, California, ca. 1940
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U.S.S. Hancock returns to Alameda Naval Station, passing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, September 1957
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Jewish Tribune, 28 December 1928
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Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California, ca. 1933
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, 31 May 1940
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, 7 April 1941
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, ca. 1940
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, looking west, n.d.
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Representative Florence Kahn introduces H.R. 12661 to authorize the acquisition of lands in Alameda and Marin Counties, California, for military purposes
Congressional Record, House, 71st Cong., 2nd sess. (28 May 1930): 9772.
Flight deck of the U.S.S. Casablanca loaded with P-47 Thunderbolt fighters loaded at Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, 1945
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U.S.S. Hancock, December 1944
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Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, aerial view, 12 November 1941
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Golden Gate Bridge, looking north, ca. 1937
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, ca. 1960s
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Golden Gate Bridge, under construction, ca. 1935
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U.S.S. Coral Sea approaches the Golden Gate Bridge, ca. 1982
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, under construction, ca. 1935
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, May 1998
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Bill granting the consent of Congress to the state of California to construct and maintain a toll bridge across San Francisco Bay
H.R. 16298, 71st Cong., 3rd sess., Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration
Historic American Engineering Record measured drawing of the construction plans for the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, 1999
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, under construction, ca. 1930s
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Photograph, House of Representative Chamber, 5 December 1937
Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Florence Kahn, n.d.
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Original letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Florence Kahn, 20 July 1942
Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Congresswomen Florence Kahn of California (left) and Mary Norton of New Jersey flank Representative John P. Hill of Maryland. The three Members sought to modify the Volstead Act which enforced the 18th Amendment (ratified in 1919) that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol inside the United States, as well as its importation into the country. 1926
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A New York City deputy police chief oversees agents pouring liquor into the sewer following a raid, at the height of prohibition, ca. 1921
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Chapter 7: Image Credits
The women of the 71st Congress (1929–1931) pose on the Capitol steps. From left to right they are: (front row) Pearl Oldfield of Arkansas, Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, and Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois; (back row) Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Mary Norton of New Jersey, and Florence Kahn of California. 1929
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Three unidentified young women work in a Washington, D.C., office, ca. 1922
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Photographers greet Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois (center), as she shakes hands with the wife of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (second from right), upon her arrival in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 1930. Representative Florence Prag Kahn of California stands on the far right. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida stands to McCormick’s right.
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Five sisters who are employed as secretaries to five different congressmen: Goldie, Jeane, Marge, Belle, and Verna Dunn, 8 April 1924
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Three women at work at the headquarters of the National Woman’s Party in Washington, D.C., ca. 1920
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Florence Kahn attending the Congressional Baseball Game, May 1926
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Representatives Florence Kahn and Edith Nourse Rodgers of Massachusetts with a Page in the newly created Women’s cloakroom, 28 January 1927
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Representatives Florence Kahn and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, 1925
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Florence Kahn leaving the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 3 December 1925
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Florence Kahn, n.d.
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Chapter 8: Image Credits
Florence Kahn, 1929
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Interior of House Office Building (later the Cannon House Office Building), ca. 1908
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New Yorkers queue up in a bread line near the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City in 1932 during the depths of the Great Depression.
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Oklahoma squatter’s family in California, c.a. 1935
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Crews of transient men work in a commissary for surplus commodities in San Francisco, California, 27 December 1934
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
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William Hudson cartoon depicts Republican difficulties campaigning against the Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation in 1936
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Map of Florence Kahn’s congressional district, created by Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, based on “Statutes of California Forty-Ninth Session of the Legislature, 1931”
Main span of the Oakland–San Francisco Bay Bridge with the San Francisco, California, skyline, 8 July 1945
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Chapter 9: Image Credits
San Francisco, California, view down Market Street, ca. 1935
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“Report of the Works Progress Administration, Golden Gate Exposition,” National Archives and Records Administration
Visitors at the 1939–1940 Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, California “Report of the Works Progress Administration, Golden Gate Exposition,” National Archives and Records Administration
Florence Kahn, Julius Kahn II, Julius Kahn III, and Mary Prag, n.d.
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San Francisco Chronicle, 17 November 1948
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Florence Kahn, 1929
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