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Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

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Title: Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974
Contributor: Montney, Cal
Date Created and/or Issued: October 21, 1974
1974-10-21
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: WEIGH IN--Western Airlines stewardesses picket company ticket counter at L.A. Airport to protest recent firing of a stewardess who was four pounds overweight. From left they are Lorraine Storto (back to camera), Glenrae Jenks, Helen Barrios, Carol Zemke and Lila Lynn.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b739_279102
ark:/21198/zz0002pvhz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Picketing--California--Los Angeles County
Body weight--United States
Flight attendants--United States
Activism
Women--Employment--United States
Women--Social conditions
Discrimination against overweight women--California--Los Angeles County
Discrimination in employment--United States
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Western Airlines--Employees
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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