Helen Marie Brush Jenkins (April 1919 – June 12, 2013) was one of the first women News Photographers in the world.
Taught by her husband Gilmer, (Gib), Brush, she took his job at the Daily News when he went to war as a photographer for the OSS.
Her subjects included President Harry Truman, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin.
In 1953, Brush Jenkins photographed her newborn son, Gilmer, who was only one minute old at the time was picture was taken.
[1][2][3] Brush Jenkins was born Helen Marie Pfeiffer in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1919.