Beauty queen arrives here, 1952

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1 image. Beauty queen arrives here, 7 July 1952. Sharon Lee Curtis -- 17 years (Northwestern University coed); Max Factor award as "The Fresh, young, natural American look). (Handout).; Supplementary material reads: "Photo from TWA. Public Relations. 620 West 6th Street. MICH. 8141. For Immediate release. Beauty queen arrives here. L.A. International Airport, July 7: Sharon Lee Curtis, 17-year-old Northwestern University coed, named by glamour authority, Max Factor as the girl who most beautifully personifies 'The Fresh, young, natural American look' arrived here today aboard TWA Constellation from New York. Miss Curtis won the title from a field of more than 2000 coeds from 352 colleges. $5000 in awards accompany the honor".

Asset Metadata

Title Beauty queen arrives here, 1952

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place airport features: Los Angeles International Airport (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1952-07-07

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1952-07-07

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m20136

Identifier EXM-N-9630-022~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94761 (legacy record id), examiner-m20136 (legacy record id), 9630-022 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94761

Unique identifier UC11719098

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-9630-022~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.9 in × 29.9 in at 300dpi
60.7 cm × 76.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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