Pioneering photog Caroline Valenta dies
Photo credit: Maurice Miller | Caroline Valenta, trailblazing woman newspaper photographer and Pulitzer-Prize nominee, poses with her 1929 Ford Model A in front of The Houston Post building in 1948.
Caroline Valenta, a trailblazing photographer
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A trailblazer for women photojournalists, Caroline Valenta drove a Model A Ford and carried a boxy Speed Graphic camera in 1947 when, at age 23, she was sent to cover a major industrial disaster in Texas City, Texas, for the then-Houston Post.
"She just charged out there," said J.R. Gonzales, who writes the Bayou City History blog for the Houston Chronicle. "She really had this fearless drive,"...
