Eleanor Roosevelt with female journalists, Puerto Rico, 1934

ID: 320 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Bugbee, Dorothy Ducas, Ruby Black, and Bess Furman in Puerto Rico, 1934]." Image. From National Archives and Records Administration: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/195975 (accessed December 14, 2017). ~ Date: March 5, 1934
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In March 1934, Eleanor Roosevelt made an inspection trip to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. She is accompanied in the photograph by journalists Emma Bugbee, Dorothy Ducas, Ruby Black, and Bess Furman. Women journalists relished the opportunity of working with the First Lady.

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