anniemarshallreidrolph

Mrs. Jas. Ralph [i.e. Rolph], Jr., voting (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• David Gallagher said:

  I think this is Mrs James Rolph - Mayor of San Francisco (1912-1931) and Governor of California (1931-34) capitolmuseum.ca.gov/firstladies.aspx?content2=1712

• Joe said:

  Yes, that must be Annie Marshall Reid Rolph, the mayor's wife, probably voting for the first time. In a referendum, California's voters approved women's suffrage in 1911. This photo probably dates from 1912. The San Francisco public library has this photo of a considerably older Annie Rolph with her husband "Sunny Jim", at the polls once again, in 1930 when he was running for Governor.

• David Gallagher said:

  I think you've made a pretty good assessment of this, excellent work.

• Kellan said:

  Is that cylinder the ballot box?

• Joe said:

  Thanks. The cylinder does look like it might be the ballot box. It's numbered, and there's a key hanging from the end of it.