All dressed up and just waiting for the music to start. Living it up at the Jeanie Ball which was held in for several years in the mid 20th century at the Stephen Foster Memorial Center in White Springs Florida.

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1954 “Jeanie Ball” Queen, Barbara Foster, being crowned at the Stephen Foster State Memorial Center – White Springs, Florida USA. January 1954 image. Department of Commerce Collection, Florida Memory the State Library and Archives of Florida. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/71795
1956 Jeanie Ball contest winner Ann Bower being crowned by Stephen Foster’s grandaughter Mrs. Evelyn Foster Morneweck – White Springs, Florida USA. April 1956 image. Karl E. Holland, photographer. Department of Commerce Collection, Florida Memory the State Library and Archives of Florida. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/73573
1959 Jeanie Ball contest winner Veronica McCormick standing in front of museum for portrait at the Stephen Foster Memorial – White Springs, Florida USA. February 1959 image. Karl E. Holland, photographer. Department of Commerce Collection, Florida Memory the State Library and Archives of Florida. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/76036
1960 Jeanie Ball “Queen” Joyce Marie Garland singing at the Stephen Foster Memorial – White Springs, Florida USA. February 1960 image. Karl E. Holland, photographer. Department of Commerce Collection, Florida Memory the State Library and Archives of Florida. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/77116
A couple of Jeanie Ball contest participants posing for a portrait at the Stephen Foster State Memorial – White Springs, Florida USA. September 1970 image. Murphy, photographer. Karl E. Holland, photographer. Department of Commerce Collection, Florida Memory the State Library and Archives of Florida. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/85936

The Jeanie Ball commemorated Stephen Foster’s song “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”, leaving out the fact that Stephen Foster died a drunk in the back hall of a New York City flophouse in 1864. But his songs are wonderful.

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