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The American girl, Ninalee Craig, was 23 years old and, she says, a “rather commanding” six feet tall when she caught Orkin's eye at the Hotel Berchielli.

Ninalee Allen was born in Indianapolis on Nov. 6, Her father, William Allen, was the personnel director for a department store and her.

Ninalee Allen Craig — as she had been known since her second marriage — died of complications of lung cancer on Tuesday in Toronto, her stepson.

Ninalee Allen Craig describes the day in when she and photographer Ruth Orkin embarked on a photographic excursion through Florence.

Ninalee Allen, who was known as Jinx, was a vacationing nursery-school teacher.

Ninalee Allen Craig — as she had been known since her second marriage — died of complications of lung cancer on Tuesday in Toronto, her stepson.!

Back in 1951, Ninalee Craig was a carefree 23-year-old who had chucked her job in New York and secured third-class accommodations on a ship bound for Europe.

She spent more than six months making her way through France, Spain and Italy all by herself — something very few women did in the years following World War II.

She traveled as inexpensively as she could, so she was thrilled when she found a hotel right on the Arno River in Florence where she could stay for $1 a day.

There, she met another adventurous solo female traveler: Ruth Orkin, a 29-year-old photographer who came to Italy after completing an assignment in Israel.

“She was living from day to day, nickel-and-diming it,” Craig recalled.

“We talked about traveling alone and asked each other, ‘Are you having a hard time? Are you ever bothered?’ We both found that we were having a wonderful time, and only some thi