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First female newspaper editor Pat Hollen of Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: First female newspaper editor Pat Hollen of Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 31, 1936
1936-01-31
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Young Pat smiles happily for the camera, poised at the ready for editorial duties with a pen and papers.
Photograph appears under the headline, "Boy Editor Tradition Smashed," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1936: 7.
Text from newspaper caption: Pat Hollen, who can boast both unusual beauty and exceptional scholastic accomplishments, has just broken a long-time custom at Van Nuys High School by being named editor of the Mirror, weekly publication. Always in the past the honor has gone to male students. The precedent-breaking young editor is shown here busily engaged with new duties.
Text from negative sleeve: 3471 - Pat Hollen, editor of Van Nuys High School weekly paper. 1/27/36 [stamped:] Jan 31 1936
Handwritten on negative: Pat Hollen.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12446
ark:/21198/zz002hmfvk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper editors--American--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Hollen, Patricia, b. 1920
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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