Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 465

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Large group of ephemera and photographs from beauty pageants, debutante balls, and fashion shows. 145 photographs and 17 programs and other items, various sizes, in one box; condition generally strong. Various places, 1957-1995
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Cotillion / debutante programs for balls held by: Alpha Kappa Alpha chapters in High Point, NC, 1967, Prince George's County, MD, 1985, and Pontiac, MI, 1995; a chapter of Gamma Phi Delta, Detroit, 1979; United Negro College Fund, Detroit, 1994; Knickerbocker International Business and Professional Women's Society, New York, 1972; Inter-Faith Scholarship Cotillion Ball, Detroit, 1975; Bethel A.M.E. Church, Bridgeport, CT, 1969; George Washington Carver Community Center, White Plains, NY, 1957 and 1958.

Beauty pageant programs: Miss Black Teenage Illinois Pageant, Chicago, 1974; Miss Black Maryland Beauty Pageant, Baltimore, 1970; Miss Black Columbia Pageant, Columbia, SC, 1979 (with inscriptions to a participant); Coronation of Miss Beneficial and Glam-O-Rama, Oakland, CA, 1961; "Tanya Madare Presents" fashion agency pageant, Philadelphia, 1970; plus a circular letter from the planning of the Miss Black America pageant of 1974.

Group of 120 color snapshots, most around 3½ x 5 inches, of an unidentified fashion show circa 1985 (Wilmington, NC?).

Admission ticket and 14 snapshots, most around 4 x 6 inches, of a "Philadelphia's Prettiest Proclamation Night," 1987.

10 black and white photos of a fashion show, 8 x 10 inches, by A. Anthony White of Dorchester, MA, 1961; plus one additional uncredited shot the same size of a debutante ball.

With--4 related beauty publications: American Girl magazine, March 1974; and two Gold Medal beauty product catalogs circa 1992.