Wilhelmina Cooper, fashion model

Jul 20, 1967 - London, England, United Kingdom - American fashion queen WILHELMINA, posing in Hyde Park, London from the United States, is looking for models of the future to join her new model agency in New York. Wilhelmina, whose earnings have reached BSP 35, 000 a year, have been a cover girl for more than 300 magazines. Wilhelmina Cooper (1 May 1939 - 1 March 1980) was a Dutch model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967. On 1 March 1980, Cooper died of lung cancer at the age of 40 in Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut. (Credit Image: (c) KEYSTONE Pictures/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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