Picture album presented, 1954

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1 image. Picture album presented, 28 April 1954. Yuko Takeda (Japan Air lines stewardess presents album to); Alice Atwood, (United Air Lines stewardess supervisor who help JAL gals). (Handout).; Supplementary material reads: "News Bureau, United Air Lines, Bill O'Hern, MAdison 6-6311, Night: SUnset 1-0147. Story or caption info. for enclosed raw neg. For her part in the recent training of Japan Air Lines stewardesses in Japan, Alice Atwood, United Air Lines stewardess supervisor, was presented with a picture album containing a history of her activities by JAL stewardess Yuko Takeda in ceremonies held today. The album, which was autographed by the more than fifty Japanese girls that she trained during a six-month period, gives a day by day account of the many phases that go into the training of stewardesses that fly from Japan to the Westcoast. [... continued].; Supplementary material contiues: "Miss Attwood, a United Air Lines Stewardess for the past five-years, was responsible for the recruiting of Japanese girls for the flying jobs and for the establishment of a training school modeled after United's in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Qualifications were so exacting that out of 3000 girls interviewed, only fifty-five were chosen for training. Japan Air Lines, which flies two round trips weekly from Japan connecting with UAL, is the first Japanese commercial airline to begin operation since the end of World War Two".

Asset Metadata

Title Picture album presented, 1954

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1954-04-28

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), 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 1954-04-28

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-m20856

Identifier EXM-N-11101-024~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-95619 (legacy record id), examiner-m20856 (legacy record id), 11101-024 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 95619

Unique identifier UC11721603

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11101-024~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.9 in × 29.4 in at 300dpi
60.8 cm × 74.7 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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