Resource Type: still image / Subject: Beauty contests--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 28th Governor of California Frank Finley Merriam (back right) and actress/musician/politician Adele Arbo (back left) with five young women, presumably participants in a beauty contest. Contestants include (left to right); Sibyl D. Slinkard, Betty Meguire, Laura Kerr, Marjorie Owens, and Helen Gilbert. Photo may possibly have been taken at the San Bernadino Orange Show. Dates given for the photo are based on the dates of Merriam's tenure as Governor.
Date:: between June 2, 1934 and January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Coronation of the French queen of the Olympic games before a grand ball. Left to right: an unidentified man, the unidentified queen, Peggy Hamilton extending her hand to the queen's crown, and California Governor James Rolph. They are at the Elks Lodge (607 Park View Street) for the evening program celebrating Bastille Day, as reported in the Los Angeles Times of July 14, 1932, pg. A10.
Date:: July 14, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Reported in "PERFECT-BACK OWNER CHOSEN: Chiropractors Award Honor to Virginia Parent Selection Made Out of Field of 250 Contestants Three Other Girls Also in Winning Class," Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug. 1927: A2.
Date:: [circa August 4, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported in "PERFECT-BACK OWNER CHOSEN: Chiropractors Award Honor to Virginia Parent Selection Made Out of Field of 250 Contestants Three Other Girls Also in Winning Class," Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug. 1927: A2.
Date:: [circa August 4, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A very full crowd packs the Venice Beach Boardwalk to observe the bathing beauty contest. In the left foreground a photographer stands on a ladder, a bit unfocused. To the right are boardwalk shops, with their windows all open and spectators watching through open windows. In the left back of the image are billboards and shop signs for Christopher's Ice Cream, Venice Photo Studio, an Orange Ade purveyor, and a restaurant. Reported in "Thousands See Beach Beauties: Record Crowd at Venice for Parade of Pulchritude, Naming of Representative Deferred to July 14, Prizes Awarded Winners in Several Divisions," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jun. 1926: A1.
Date:: June 27, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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