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

Item Overview

Title

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

Date Created

January 31, 1936

Date

1936-01-31

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hollen, Patricia, b. 1920

Location

Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

34.189234

Latitude

-118.455163

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper editors--American--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers