a beauty contest in progress at Butlin’s, Skegness in the 1930s
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Meacham’s Bathing Beauties In the mid-1920s, the summer bathing season at Lake Worth was opened with a big splash. On June 6, 1925, the Queen of Lake Worth was crowned […]
the 1923 pageant crowned Mary Katherine Campbell Miss America for the second year in a row. Campbell is joined by (left to right) pageant director Mr. Armand T Nichols, King […]
The Miss America contest of 1922 was won by Miss Mary Campbell, second from left. At far left is Armand T. Nichols, director of the Pageant, King Neptune (Hudson Maxim), […]
bathing beaquties participated in the annual beauty contest in Coney Island in 1923 – the winner went on to the Atlantic City
Miss Milwaukee Clare Koehler, from left, Miss Chicago Margaret Leigh, Miss Los Angeles Lillian Knight and Miss Sioux City Alta Sterling, circa September 1924. This was most likely a gathering […]
Miss Tulsa – Norma Smallwood – was was crowned the 6th Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1926. Smallwood was the first full blooded Native American (she was Cherokee) […]
gmgallery: Joan Bennett in the swimsuit portion of the Miss Missouri contest for the film She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) www.stores.eBay.com/GrapefruitMoonGallery
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Beauty show, August 5, 1922