"Mother of the Year" Award Wrigley Field, 1959

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1 image. "Mother of the Year" Award Wrigley Field, 11 May 1958. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown; Mrs. Mary Williams Ross (Mother of the Year).; Supplementary material reads: "Brown for Governor Committee. 315 W. 9 Street L.A. 15, TR 0641 Fitzpatrick. 1958-05-11. For Immediate Release. Atty. Gen. Edmund G. 'Pat' Brown yesterday paid tribute to Mrs. Mary Williams Ross (6003 Compton Ave), 'Mother of the Year' at a Mother's Day program attended by thousands at Wrigley Field. Recipient of the honor, Mrs. Ross, has lived in California for 11 years having come here from Shreveport, Louisiana, her birthplace. Mother of five children, two boys and three girls whose ages range from 13 to 21, Mrs. Ross also has three adopted children, two of whom are married and have families of their own and one who still lives in the Ross household. A successful business woman, Mrs. Ross finds time for much social and philanthropic activity. She is commander of Camp No. 16, Eastern Star and is an active member of Paradise Baptist Church. According to Joseph Matthews, master of ceremonies at the gathering in honor of Mrs. Ross, the 'Mother of the Year' award will be an annual event."

Asset Metadata

Title "Mother of the Year" Award Wrigley Field, 1959

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1958-05-11

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 1958-05-11

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-m20105

Identifier EXM-N-12483-007~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94747 (legacy record id), examiner-m20105 (legacy record id), 12483-007 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94747

Unique identifier UC11719782

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-12483-007~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 24.0 in × 30.0 in at 300dpi
61.0 cm × 76.3 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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