Career
Brush Jenkins, who worked for the now-defunct Los Angeles Daily News, beginning in the 1940s, was considered a pioneer in the news industry. Very few women worked as reporters or photographers in a newsroom at the time. She worked for the Daily News for more than twelve years.
Her subjects included President Harry Truman, United States. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin.
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.
