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Title: Agness Underwood
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Used in the Exhibit: The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City.
Underwood (December 17, 1902 - July 3, 1984) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. She worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Record from 1928 to 1935, and for the Herald-Express from 1935 to 1968. In 1947, Underwood became the first woman in the U.S. to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily, the Herald-Express.
Portrait of Agness "Aggie" May Underwood.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00128648
Herald Examiner Collection
HED-0932.1
CARL0005412357
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34733
Subject: Underwood, Agness,--1902-1984
Journalists--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1931-1940

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