Miss Skyways, 1956

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1 image. "Miss Skyways", 8 February 1956. Lynn Kleinpeter, U.A.L. stewardess, 24. (Handout). Supplementary material reads: News Bureau. United Air Lines. Bill O'Hern. MAdison 6-6311. Night: SUnset 1-0147. Caption info. for enclosed raw neg. Representing America's most traveled women from Southern California, United Air Lines Stewardess Lynn Kleinpeter left here early today aboard a DC-7 to compete with 21 other stewardesses from all over the world for the title 'Miss Skyways' in ceremonies tomorrow in New York City. The competition, which is sponsored by the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association, is to pick the world's most ideal stewardess. The winner will be chosen on the basis of her charm, personality, poise, beauty and the scope of her off-duty activities. Miss Kleinpeter, 24, has been a United Air Lines stewardess for the past 3 years. She lives at 2604 West 81st Street, Inglewood."

Asset Metadata

Title Miss Skyways, 1956

Subject Contests (lcsh), Flight attendants (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 33.943947,-118.4091 (point)

Temporal Subject 1956-02-08

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 1956-02-08

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-m24227

Identifier EXM-N-11716-010~1.tiff (filename), examiner-c44-111619 (legacy record id), 11716-010 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 111619

Unique identifier UC11654882

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11716-010~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.5 in × 32.1 in at 300dpi
64.9 cm × 81.6 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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