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Title
Agness Underwood and Queen of the Great Western Fair and Dairy Show
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1966
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Agness ""Aggie"" 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.
Photograph snipe dated May 31, 1966 reads, ""Subject: Dairy. Agness Underwood, Tia Anderson-19, Dairy Show Queen & 'Billy the Kid'"". Herald-Express Managing Editor Aggie Underwood is pictured with Tia Anderson, Queen of the Great Western Fair and Dairy Show at the Great Western Exhibit Center in Commerce.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print
Photographic prints
Identifier
00164106
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 6693
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/141193
Subject
Underwood, Agness,--1902-1984
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (Firm)--Employees
Newspaper employees
Newspaper editors
Journalists
Women journalists
Beauty contestants
Women
Goats
Kids (Goats)
Fairs
Agricultural exhibitions
Dairy products industry
Programs
Brochures
Commerce (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970

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