Ellen Fullard-Leo tours Los Angeles, 1924

Description: Photograph appears with the headline, "Looking Through the Lens At Bits Of Life," Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1924: 11.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Gave Islands to United States-Mrs. E. Fullard Lee of Honolulu, who held claims to fifty-two islands in the Palmyra group, 1000 miles south of Honolulu, and took steps to give the United States jurisdiction. She is in Los Angeles on a tour. (Times photo.)
Text from insert in negative sleeve: Woman who Gave U.S. 52 Islands Visits America. The only woman who ever added lands to Uncle Sam's territory is Mrs. E. Fullard Leo of Honolulu who caused 52 islands 1000 miles south of Honolulu of which she is the owner to be annexed to this country. This picture os (i.e. of) Mrs. Leo was snapped in Los Angeles shortly after she arrived on this side of the Pacific. 5/17/24.
Text from negative sleeve: LEO, E. FULLARD MRS.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. E. Fullard Leo.

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