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[Photograph of Nancy Stevenson, Yucca Beauty]

Description: Photograph of Nancy Stevenson, a Yucca Beauty in January of 1963. In the image Stevenson is posing next to a rock wall support in a dress and heels. In the bottom left of the frame the camera's shadow can be seen. A building and a few trees make up the rest of the background behind the rock wall.
Date: January 1963
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sweetheart Named by 90th Division ; Soap Box Races]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the 90th Infantry Division holding a beauty contest. Another beauty contest is held by the Tarrant County Modified Auto Association. Second is a story about eleven racers competing at the second annual soap box race set up by the local Cub Scouts.
Date: August 26, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Air Force Exhibit, Fashions, Richardson Fair]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a joint aircraft exhibit held by the U.S. Air Force and the General Electric Company in Dallas, a four day long community fair in Richardson, Texas, and winter fashions on display at the Merchandise Mart in Dallas.
Date: August 22, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Possum Queen Daisy Potter]

Description: Photograph of Possum Queen, Daisy Potter, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Daisy wears a calico dress with a silver crown, jewelry made of painted wooden beads, and a string of possum pelts around her neck. In her hands, Daisy holds a yam pie--baked and sold by the Gilmer Yamboree booth workers at the Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Guests at a pageant dinner]

Description: Photograph of people eating at a pageant dinner. There are three people who are sitting at the table, two older men wearing suits and a woman in the middle who has a beehive hairdo and is wearing a blue dress and blue eye-shadow. The table they are sitting at is covered by a yellow tablecloth and there are plates of food in front of each guest and the two men are eating. A waiter is standing to the left of the woman and is holding out a basket of rolls that the woman is eyeing.
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Beauty pageant contestant]

Description: Photograph of a beauty pageant contestant standing on a stage. She is wearing a white, cap sleeve dress with a light blue sash and trim and white opera gloves. Her hair is up in an updo and she is holding a bouquet of bright pink roses. The stage she is standing on is bright blue and she is standing in front of a gold curtain.
Date: [1950..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Teen-Age Downbeat contestants]

Description: Photograph of Teen-Age Downbeat contestants. All nine contestants are in swimsuits and heels. To the right of the contestants, a display with the names of popular artists of the day can be seen.
Date: [1940..1955]
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Outdoor circus]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about the 22nd Community Circus at LaGrave air field in Fort Worth. Various acrobats are shown performing, such as Evelyn Kapps on the rope, trampoline artists Barbara Gallaher and Joe Slocum, and the acrobatic Bud Lucas troupe. There is also footage of Geneva McQuinn being crowned queen of the circus in a earlier pageant.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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