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FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH:
A Pioneering Woman Attorney
Clara Shortridge Foltz, Circa 1900

Not only was she California's first woman attorney, if you are today facing criminal charges and unable to afford a defense attorney, thank Clara Shortridge Foltz.

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Woman Aircraft Workers, Long Beach, 1942

Photo from U.S. Office of War Information, in the collection at the Library of Congress.

Circa 1942. Dora Miles and Dorothy Johnson assembling World War II bombers and transports in Long Beach for Douglas Aircraft Company. Approximately 65 percent of these workers were women. The Long Beach plant churned out 3,000 B-17 bombers by the end of World War II, almost a quarter of the more than 12,700 B-17s delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps. Vega Aircraft, a Lockheed subsidiary across town in Burbank, built another 2,750 B-17s. The two Los Angeles County plants, combined, built and delivered 45 percent of all B-17s flown in the war.

Also see: L.A. Video: Rosie the Riveter - The Story

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Official Seal, Los Angeles County

Who is the woman at the center of the official seal of Los Angeles County?

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