(BEAUTY) Group of African American beauty pageant and fashio

Sale 2471 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 531

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(BEAUTY.) Group of African-American beauty pageant and fashion show ephemera. 21 items (4 photographs, 9 programs, and related ephemera), various sizes and conditions. Vp, circa 1930s-74

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The four photographs are from a debutante ball in Detroit circa late 1930s by Langford P. James, 8 x 10 inches and 3 smaller photos from a pageant in Columbus, OH circa 1950.
Also included are a group of fashion show and pageant programs from California from 1963 to 1974: National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers programs, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1963-65 (5 programs) 16th Cotillion, 20th Century Surf Club program, San Francisco, 1964 Northern California Centennial Rose Parade Committee First Annual Coronation Ball program and 8 related tickets and memoranda, San Francisco, 1965 Miss Bronze Northern California Beauty Pageant program, San Francisco, 1966 Barbara Davis & Company Presents Fall Fashion Frenzy program, [San Francisco, 1974]. with--an advertising broadside titled "Take the Curls Out of Your Hair by Using Carpenter's Ox Marrow Pomade." 12 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, toned and slightly chipped. Louisville, KY: E.F. Catterton, circa 1900.