Box 2
Container
Contains 110 Collections and/or Records:
Thank-you party for the campaign workers of Helen Gahagan Douglas following her first election to Congress, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_111
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...
Helen Gahagan Douglas stepping down from a TWA airplane, promoting the sale of War Bonds, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_112
Scope and Contents
Sometime in 1944 before Mrs. Douglas left for Washington, D.C. to become a member of Congress.
Helen Gahagan Douglas writing at her desk in the bedroom of the California home, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_113
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Left picture on desk from the play, "Tonight or Never", right picture of Melvyn Douglas, picture on the wall of Eleanor Roosevelt. Los Angeles, California.
Emily Taft Douglas, Congressional at-large seat delegate from Illinois and Helen Gahagan Douglas as candidate for California's 14th congressional district seat, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_114
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Both have husbands who at that time were captains in the Armed Forces overseas. Chicago, Illinois. July 17, 1944. AP Wire photo.
After praising the leadership of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas waves to delegates at the National Democratic Convention, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_115
Scope and Contents
Senator Samuel Jackson of Indiana is beside her. Mrs. Douglas said "Never before in American history have the people of both political parties been so long united on one man. . . President Roosevelt who believes that the wealth of the nation is in its people. . ." Roosevelt opposed Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York in the November 1944 election. Chicago, Illinois. July 24, 1944.
Helen Gahagan Douglas and Senator Samuel Jackson of Indiana wave to the crowd from the podium at the Democratic National Convention, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_116
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Chicago, Illinois. July 24, 1944. McAvoy, LIFE Magazine photograph.
Helen Gahagan Douglas and a man, possibly from California, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_117
Scope and Contents
Democratic National Convention. Chicago, Illinois. July 24, 1944.
Helen Gahagan Douglas and Henry Kaiser, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_118
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Democratic National Convention. Chicago, Illinois. July 1944. Otto Rothschild photograph.
Democratic National Convention, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_119
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Seated from left: Helen Gahagan Douglas and Henry Kaiser of Kaiser Steel. Standing from left: Maury Maverick, Congressman from Texas and three of Kaiser's people. Chicago, Illinois. July 1944. Otto Rothschild photograph.
Helen Gahagan Douglas speaking for housing at a housing meeting, 1944-1946
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_120
Scope and Contents
Probably in the Labor Department, Washington, D.C. 1944-1946. Fred Harris photograph.