Flight attendant Sharon Combest after testifying to being "too heavy" to be airline stewardess in Los Angeles, Calif., 1964

Item Overview

Title: Flight attendant Sharon Combest after testifying to being "too heavy" to be airline stewardess in Los Angeles, Calif., 1964
Date Created: August 21, 1964
Date: 1964-08-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: TOO HEAVY?-Sharon Combest, former Miss Michigan, who testified that at 121 lbs. she weighed too much to be instructor for airline stewardesses.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 5 x 5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Legal
Women--Social conditions
Discrimination in employment--United States
Discrimination against overweight women--California--Los Angeles County
Flight attendants--United States
Women--Employment--United States
Body weight--United States
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Transportation
People

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b534_225558
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002spjd
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