contestants in the ‘Miss America’ pageant pose in a line, with their arms around each other, Atlantic City, NJ, 1927

Virgina Stonesifer, from left, Betty Ann Savers, Doris Rutkin, Margaret Dorney, Novene LaRue, and Myrtle Christine Valsted in the Miss Chicago contest, circa 1927. Miss Myrtle Christine Valsted, 17, took […]

Regional Winners in typical American Girl Quest, 1929  First Row – left to right – Anice Carlisle, Houston Post-Dispatch  bottom: Dorothy McDorman, Baltimore News, Nellie E Hoover, Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph Second […]

Candidates Aspiring To The Title –  from left to right – Liliane Gauthier, Danielle Luz, Christiane Raveau, Annie Collin, Archee Lorain (Miss Paris 1935) and Germaine Pourailly – December 16, […]

top –  New York, NY – WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AS QUEEN? How’s this for a septet? New York’s Broadway Association’s beauty committee picked ‘em April 20 from 26 heartbreakers. […]