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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- Created Date
- October 21, 1974
- 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.
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Subjects
- Discrimination against overweight women--California--Los Angeles County
Flight attendants--United States
Discrimination in employment--United States
Women--Employment--United States
Women--Social conditions
Body weight--United States
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Activism
Picketing--California--Los Angeles County
Western Airlines--Employees - Type
- image
- Format
- B&w negative
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Rights
- 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) 825-3630
- Chicago citation style
- Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974. October 21, 1974. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ursus.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002pvhz. (Accessed January 22, 2025.)
- APA citation style
- (October 21, 1974) Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ursus.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002pvhz
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ursus.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002pvhz>.