About Helen Brush Jenkins
Lived 1919 – 2013 (aged 93–94). Helen Brush Jenkins was an American photographer, photojournalist and journalist.
Helen Marie Brush Jenkins (April 1919 – June 12, 2013) was one of the first women News Photographers in the world. Brush Jenkins, based in Los Angeles California where she got her start working for the now-defunct Los Angeles Daily News, beginning in the 1940s, she was considered a pioneer in the news industry. At the time, she was the first woman who worked as a news photographer. Her photograph, taken just after delivery, was published in Time Magazine two weeks later.
Brush Jenkins was born Helen Marie Pfeiffer in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1919. She died on June 12, 2013, in Chicago at the age of 94.
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American photographer
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Helen Brush Jenkins was born in 1919 in Omaha.
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Helen Brush Jenkins died on 12 June 2013 in Chicago.
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Helen Brush Jenkins was a photographer, photojournalist and journalist.
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