Subject: Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photo appears with the article "SEEKS AID OF AUTHORITIES: "Miss Los Angeles" Says She Was Victim of Ruse; Declares Blackmail was Threatened Beauty Charges Plot in Posing for Photos SEEKS AID OF AUTHORITIES," Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 1923: II1.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Ada Williams (later Ada Ince), winner of the Miss Florida beauty pageant in 1927, in a bathing suit with a "Miss Florida" banner. Ms. Williams was awarded her first film studio contract in 1928.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ada Williams (later Ada Ince), winner of the Miss Florida beauty pageant in 1927, in a bathing suit, seen from the back. Ms. Williams was awarded her first film studio contract in 1928.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Carmen Gonzales, queen of El Festejos Patrios Mexicanas ,with her maids in waiting, Sarah Rivera and Maria Cruz. All three wear floor length gowns that appear to be made of silk or satin.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Millionaire publisher Eugene V. Brewster and husband of actress and "Georgia Peach" beauty contest winner Corliss Palmer testifies that her husband neglected to take her out, nagged her, and would rather read and play solitaire than spend time with his wife.
Date:: December 5, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The finalists for Miss Canada 1936 smile and pose around a staircase.
Date:: February 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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