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[Golden Jubilee Queen Candidates]

Description: Photograph of a group of young women, all candidates for the Golden Jubilee Queen in Port Arthur, Texas, posing together on benches set on a hardwood floor. Some of them are identified as Doris Jones, Abbie Speights, Thelma Tadlock, and Gloria Antonia.
Date: 1948
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[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

[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

[Five Women at Farm Bureau Queen's Contest]

Description: Photograph of five girls at a beauty pageant in El Campo, Texas, headed by the Farm Bureau of Wharton County. They are standing on a wooden floor beneath a hanging set of streamers. They wear long dresses of varying colors, prints, and tailoring. From left to right, they have been identified as: unknown, Mary Dorotik (possibly Dornak), Elaine Hansen, LaVanne Ladewig, and Lillie Jensen. Hand-written text on the back of the photograph lists their names. Additionally, a small newspaper article … more
Date: 1949
Creator: Connie's Studio
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Pageant on Stage]

Description: Photograph of a pageant being performed on stage. There are eleven girls on stage in ballgowns holding bouquets of flowers. Seven of them are standing on various levels of a platform with one girl in the middle at the highest point, and the other four are on the ground in front. People can be seen peeking out from behind the curtains on the left, and the orchestral pit is visible at the bottom of the photo.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: Foster, William Hague
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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