Chinese New Year's queens, 1953

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1 image. Chinese New Year's queens, 14 February 1953. Annie chow; Judy Dan. (Sent in). Supplementary material reads: "News Release from Western Air Lines, Inc. For release immediately. From Ken smith, Mgr., News Bureau, Western Air Lines, 6060 Avion Dr., Los Angeles 45. Call ORegon 6-2531. Happy New Year! Annie Chow and Judy Dan, queens of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, know that today is St. Valentine's Day, but it also is New Year's Eve to the world's Chinese population. They are seen here boarding a Western Air Lines DC-6B at Los Angeles International Airport for a flight to San Francisco where they will reign over the Bay City's gigantic Chinatown celebration, largest Chinese affair of the year in the United States. Miss Chow, 21, is a native of Los Angeles and a 1952 graduate of UCLA. She now teaches art at South Gate High School. Miss Dan, 21, resides in Hong Kong, came to the U.S. as China's entrant in Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, where she was named one of the five most beautiful girls in the world. She now is under contract at Universal-International Studios. Left to right: Judy Dan & Annie Chow."

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Title Chinese New Year's queens, 1953

Subject Beauty contestants (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1 World Way (roadway), airport feature: Los Angeles International Airport (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate 33.943965,-118.409121 (point)

Temporal Subject 1953-02-14

Type images

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

Language English

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 1953-02-14

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-m24293

Identifier EXM-N-9822-010~1.tif (filename), examiner-c44-114767 (legacy record id), 9822-010 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 114767

Unique identifier UC11696581

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-9822-010~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.6 in × 32.1 in at 300dpi
65.1 cm × 81.5 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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