Debutants and queen of the Miss Wilfandel popularity contest at the Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, 1948

Title: Debutants and queen of the Miss Wilfandel popularity contest at the Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, 1948
Alternative title: High School Marching Band and Unidentified Beauty Pageant
Date Created: May 6, 1948
Date: 1948-05-06
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Image depicting 21 debutants in light colored evening gowns who participated in the popularity contest of the Wilfandel Club women, seated on the stage of the Polytechnic High School in front of a painted landscape backdrop. The winner, Elinor Vera Winston, is in the center.
In 1948 Polytechnic High School was located at Washington Boulevard and South Flower Street.
Photograph was published with the article "Wilfandel names queen," Los Angeles Sentinel, 13 May 1948: 18.

Genre: photographs
Names: Polytechnic High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Albritton, Elinor Vera Winston, b. 1931
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.033909
Latitude: -118.270798
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Debutantes
African American students