Leaves for national pie 'bake off", 1955

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1 image. Leaves for national pie 'bake-off", 16 February 1955. Marilyn Luckensmeyer (California "Miss Cherry Pie"); Miss Alice Jenkins. (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. Armed with her best cherry-pie recipe, California's 'Miss Cherry-Pie', pretty Marilyn Luckensmeyer, of Pomona, left the Los Angeles International Airport early today (Wed.) aboard a United Air Lines Mainliner for Chicago and the national pie 'bake-off' to be held there on Friday. Accompanied by her Pomona High School home economics teacher, Miss Alice Jenkins, the 17-year-old girl will vie for honors with 47 other girls representing each state. Miss Luckensmeyer won her title last month when she competed with girls from all over California. The winner will be given the title 'Miss National Cherry-Pie' and will present a sample of her cooking to President Eisenhower."

Asset Metadata

Title Leaves for national pie 'bake off", 1955

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Geocoordinate 33.943965,-118.4091 (point)

Temporal Subject 1955-02-16

Type images

Format 1 photographs : negatives, 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 1955-02-16

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-m24244

Identifier EXM-N-11351-016~1.tiff (filename), examiner-c44-111600 (legacy record id), 11351-016 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 111600

Unique identifier UC11654759

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11351-016~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.4 in × 31.9 in at 300dpi
64.6 cm × 81.2 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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