Looking like you are living it up going on train trips and staying at fancy hotels when you are merely modeling for Loom and Needle which was a fancy women’s dress shop located at 170 Esplanade in Lexington, Kentucky. Images from the University of Kentucky Archives.

Woman standing wearing a hat. Loom and Needle, 170 Esplanade (clothing), Lexington, Kentucky USA. 1944 image. American. Lafayette Studios, photographers. Lafayette Studios Photograph Collection, University of Kentucky. Under copyright. via https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7z348gg90h_5_116?q=Loom+%26+Needle%2C+170+Esplanade&per_page=20
At the race track. models standing in front of a billboard posing for an advertisement. Loom and Needle, 170 Esplanade (clothing), Lexington, Kentucky USA. 1941 image. American. Lafayette Studios, photographers. Lafayette Studios Photograph Collection, University of Kentucky. Under copyright. via https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7z348gg90h_2_164?q=Loom+%26+Needle%2C+170+Esplanade&offset=20&per_page=20
Going on a train trip. Southern Station; woman standing at ticket counter. Loom and Needle, 170 Esplanade (clothing), Lexington, Kentucky USA. 1943 image. American. Lafayette Studios, photographers. Lafayette Studios Photograph Collection, University of Kentucky. Under copyright. via https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7z348gg90h_4_304?q=Loom+%26+Needle%2C+170+Esplanade&offset=20&per_page=20

Off to buy a new pair of dancing slippers and back soon. Being a plus one at a party at the fanciest club in Louisville, Kentucky and that means fancy. Caviar, champagne, a fifty piece dance orchestra . . .

Annual Outing of the Advertising Club of Louisville at the Louisville Boat Club, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929: According to the Friday morning edition of the Courier Journal from September 20th, 1929, this is the annual outing for the Advertising Club of Louisville, which is being hosted at the Louisville Boat Club at 4200 River Road. The planned outline of events as given by the paper says that prior to the dinner they held athletic events and played bridge and that after the dinner there was to be a dance. There is a large table with a tablecloth over it that has plates, cutlery, food, and flowers spread atop it. Sitting around the table are white men and women of various ages dressed in formal party-going attire. There are helium balloons tied to various chairs. There are three African American men standing behind the people sitting at the table. Two of these men are wearing tuxedos standing around what are presumably music stands holding sheet music. The other man is holding a bundle of helium balloons.” September 20, 1929. American. Caufield and Shook, photographers. No known copyright as of 2026. Caufield and Shook Collection, University of Louisville Libraries. https://digital.library.louisville.edu/concern/images/ulpa_cs_104782?locale=en
Crowd of white women and men pack the Club Madrid dance floor. Club Madrid, also referred to as Madrid Ballroom, was located at Third and Guthrie Streets inside the Louisville Recreational Building in Louisville, Kentucky. The club opened in 1929 and featured dancing and live music. It closed in 1952. 1929 image. American. Caufield and Shook, photographers. No known copyright as of 2026. Caufield and Shook Collection, University of Louisville Libraries. https://digital.library.louisville.edu/concern/images/ulpa_cs_104746?locale=en
Club Madrid, Southeast corner Third Street and Guthrie, Louisville, Kentucky: Large crowd of people at tables with white table cloths and on the dance floor in a ballroom. The men wear suits white tuxedos, and the women wear long dresses. An all woman band, likely trumpet player Joy Caylor and “Her Swinging Co-Eds,” is visible on the stage in the background. The ballroom is decorated with painted palm trees on the back wall and ornate chandeliers. May 31 1944 image. American. Royal Photographic Company, photographer. No known copyright as of 2026. University of Louisville Libraries Collection. https://digital.library.louisville.edu/concern/images/ulpa_r_08081_00?locale=en

Heading back to school hoping for loads of fun and a date for every dance. Also straight As. Imagery from a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at what is now Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida.

Cow Chorus. Mid-late 1920s. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5424
F Club Members. ca. mid 1920s. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5315
Students Wearing “Rat Caps” on Sophomore Day. October 1924 image. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5266
Student at Camp Flastacowo. ca. 1924-1925. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A5503
Tumbling. ca. 1929-1930. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5410
Freshmen Bowing to Sophomores on Sophomore Day. October 1924 image. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5273
Louise Bryant and Mary Kinard in a Pose with “Battle” and Jacqueline Hucks In the Background. ca. 1929-1930. From a scrapbook kept by Jewell Genevieve Cooper who was a student at Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University Collections. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:5418

Summering at Mount Desert Island. I’ll be back when it starts snowing. Images from the promotional work “Mount Desert Island with Pen and Pencil” which was compiled by Doctor William Berry Lapham (Doctor W. B. Latham). Published in 1886.

Front cover. Image 5 of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/n4/mode/1up
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine. Page 4, Image 10 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/4/mode/1up
Eagle Lake. Page 10, Image 16 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/10/mode/1up
Mount Desert from ‘The Bluffs.’ Mount Desert Ferry. Page 12, Image 18 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/12/mode/1up
The Ovens. Page 17, Image 23 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/17/mode/1up
Mount Desert, Looking up Some’s Sound. The Rand Avery Supply Company (lower left) was a Boston printing company. Page 21, Image 27 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/21/mode/1up
Page 49, Image 55 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/49/mode/1up

Just like some others I found a different version of this here but it’s a different edition? Not sure what but it has 72 pages not 60

https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/10003/dr-w-b-lapham-compiler/bar-harbor-and-mount-desert-island

Heading off to college and checking out the viewbooks. If the boys are cute I’m applying. Imagery from the 1898 edition of the Eureka College (Illinois) Souvenir, put out by the Eureka College Aid Association.

BASEBALL TEAM – Chapel Building in Background: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 11 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/11/mode/1up
ON THE ELMWOOD COURT – Tabernacle in Background. Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 13 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/13/mode/1up
A CLASS IN THE GYMNASIUM: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 15 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/15/mode/1up
FOOTBALL TEAM: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 17 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/17/mode/1up
TRACK TEAM: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 19 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/19/mode/1up
MANDOLIN CLUB: Page 23 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/23/mode/1up
A SOCIAL HOUR AT LIDA’S WOOD: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 28 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/28/mode/1up
A ROOM OF ONE OF THE GIRLS AT LIDA’S WOOD: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 29 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/29/mode/1up
PERICLESIAN HALL: Morrow, Eureka, photographers? Page 35 of the 1898 edition of the ‘Eureka College Souvenir‘ which was published by the Eureka College Aid Association and printed by J. W. Franks and Sons of Peoria Illinois. Collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/eurekacollegesou00eure/page/35/mode/1up

All dressed up with more tulle petticoats than Vivien Leigh wore in “Gone with the Wind.” Imagery from Southern California’s Coronet Debutante Ball. Various years. From TESSA by way of Calisphere.

Coronet Ball debutantes – Los Angeles: Glamour and glory are all theirs for this one night at least, as the excited Coronet Ball debutantes, in white dresses and 18-button gloves, line up before the coming-out ceremony. American. James Ruebsamen, photographer. Published in the Herald-Examiner newspaper on February 3, 1985. Herald-Examiner Collection, TESSA, the digital collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/28371/rec/1
Debutantes prepare for Coronet Ball: to be presented – Among the 32 young women who will be presented to Southland society at the Coronet Debutante Ball are from left, Susan Knaggs, Judith Kent, Joyce Canaday, Adrienne Meehan and Randalla Richardson. American. Photographer not given but photographed for the Valley Times newspaper where it was published on November 7, 1960. Valley Times Photograph Collection, TESSA, the digital collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/66447/rec/2
Coronet Ball debutantes: Dolled-up debutantes, top, cluster in nervous groups to await their presentation Saturday at the 38th annual Coronet Debutante Ball. The traditional blast was held at the Beverly Hilton, and a whopping 37 debs celebrated their coming out. Their dapper escorts ditched the highfalutin togs after midnight and all watoosied until 3 in the morning. American. Photographed for the Herald-Examiner newspaper where it was published on December 2, 1986. Herald-Examiner Collection, TESSA, the digital collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/28370/rec/4
Coronet tea announces 32: Coronet dreaming – Holding replica of symbolic coronet and dreaming of November’s presentation ball are five Valley 1960 Coronet Debutantes of National Charity League of Los Angeles, Misses Randalla Richardson, Joyce Meehan, Joyce Canaday, Judith Kent and Susan Knaggs, from left. Names were announced at afternoon Bel-Air tea yesterday. American. Photographer not given but photographed for the Valley Times newspaper where it was published on August 31, 1960. Valley Times Photograph Collection, TESSA, the digital collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/66446/rec/8

Imagery of an American West that isn’t coming back. Taken from the 1858 work “Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition.” Volumes I and II. Balduin Möllhausen, artist.

Zúni, New Mexico. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 119 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume II, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Diaryjourneyfro11Moll/page/n118/mode/1up
San Francisco Mountains Extinct Volcanoes: New Mexico. Page 176 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume II, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Diaryjourneyfro11Moll/page/n176/mode/1up
The Colorado River. Page 269 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume II, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Diaryjourneyfro11Moll/page/n269/mode/1up
Dwellings of the Natives of the Rio Colorado of the West. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 296 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume II, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Diaryjourneyfro11Moll/page/n296/mode/1up
Sandstone Formation in the Prairie Northwest of Texas. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 172 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume I, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/DiaryjourneyfroVolIMoll/page/n172/mode/1up
Camp of the Kioway Indians. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 250 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume I, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/DiaryjourneyfroVolIMoll/page/n250/mode/1up
Chiefs of the Ottoe Tribe. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 288 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume I, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/DiaryjourneyfroVolIMoll/page/n288/mode/1up
Church in the Pueblo of Santo Domingo: New Mexico. Page 378 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition. Volume I, published in London in English by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. Balduin Möllhausen, artist and author. Contributed by the Museum Victoria, it is also in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/DiaryjourneyfroVolIMoll/page/n378/mode/1up

As with so many of these, they would have chromolithographs or other types of prints done up to sell after the expedition ended. Sometimes they would then turn the prints into a book. Sometimes not. Some of these are in the New York Public Library collections but these images are from the Internet Archive who appear to have more of them. The expedition itself was in 1853.

Heading downtown and sneaking into Macys after they close for a night of being fashionable with the latest colors in duvets and carpets. Images of model and or staged Florida apartments photographed around 1980 in Winter Park, Florida by commercial photographer George “Skip” Gandy IV. In his archives at the University of South Florida.

Pink Carpeted Room with Blue and Purple Decor, C: A staged bedroom with pink carpet and blue and purple decor. Winter Park, Orange County, Florida USA. Image ca. 1980. American. George “Skip” Gandy IV, photographer. Image © Estate of the photographer. Gandy Commercial and Aerial Photography Collection, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida. Fair use licence. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy_commercial/2140/
Kitchen with White Cabinets, Calibre Bend Apartments, A: staged kitchen with white cabinets and a vintage stove. Winter Park, Orange County, Florida USA. Image ca. 1980. American. George “Skip” Gandy IV, photographer. Image © Estate of the photographer. Gandy Commercial and Aerial Photography Collection, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida. Fair use licence. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy_commercial/2141/
Model Apartment Living Room with Plants: staged living room that is decorated with plants, two white couches, and a pass through window into the kitchen. Winter Park, Orange County, Florida USA. Image ca. 1980. American. George “Skip” Gandy IV, photographer. Image © Estate of the photographer. Gandy Commercial and Aerial Photography Collection, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida. Fair use licence. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy_commercial/2132/
Bedroom with Blue Carpet and Blue Bedspread: bedroom with blue carpet and a blue bed with two matching white side tables as well as access to an outdoor porch.Winter Park, Orange County, Florida USA. Image ca. 1980. American. George “Skip” Gandy IV, photographer. Image © Estate of the photographer. Gandy Commercial and Aerial Photography Collection, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida. Fair use licence. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy_commercial/2133/

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Oh to be queen of the county fair and get to lead an exotic life without packing your bags and going through all those lines at the airport. Imagery of the Kendall County Fair queen for a year found in the archives of the Patrick Heath Public Library in Boerne, Texas.

County Fair Queen and Court: Kendall County Fair queen MayDelle Ratliff seated in the center of a stage and court members grouped on either side, with women seated and men standing behind. The photo is taken from the aisle and seated audience members are visible on either side. Image ca. 1954-1959. American. Friedrich “Fred” Gustav Hillmann/Hillmann Studio, photographer. Hillmann Studio Photography Collection, Patrick Heath Public Library. via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560428/?q=fair
County Fair Queen Coronation: Kendall County Fair queen MayDelle Ratliff, seated beneath a canopy as another woman leans over her left side to place a tiara on her head. A young girl is standing on the left side of the image, and on the right side, a young boy is standing near Ratliff and another woman is seated with her escort standing behind her. Image ca. 1954-1959. American. Friedrich “Fred” Gustav Hillmann/Hillmann Studio, photographer. Hillmann Studio Photography Collection, Patrick Heath Public Library. via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560429/?q=fair
County Fair Queen on Stage: several young women wearing formal gowns and elbow-length gloves seated in a line on a stage decorated with a Hawaiian or jungle theme, including one girl in the center of the image seated in a wicker chair on a raised platform. Young men in formalwear are standing behind the girls at left and two young men who are shirtless and wearing leis are fanning the girl in the center with large palm fronds. A young girl is seated on the left side of the platform and a young boy holding a crown on a pillow is seated on the right side of the platform. Girls wearing grass skirts and leis are partially visible at the right side of the image. Looks like a Hawaii theme to me. Image ca. 1954-1959. American. Friedrich “Fred” Gustav Hillmann/Hillmann Studio, photographer. Hillmann Studio Photography Collection, Patrick Heath Public Library. via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560466/?q=fair#description-content-main
Kendall County Fair Association Float: young woman posing in a giant flower on a float that is parked near the Main Plaza in Boerne. Text on the side of the float says, “Kendall County Fair: Labor Day Week End.” The Main Plaza park area and several buildings are visible in the background. Image ca. 1954-1959. American. Friedrich “Fred” Gustav Hillmann/Hillmann Studio, photographer. Hillmann Studio Photography Collection, Patrick Heath Public Library. via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560452/?q=fair
Kendall County Fair Queen on Throne: young woman wearing a light-colored formal gown, elbow-length gloves, and a long, decorative cape is seated on a decorative platform in a wicker chair with a decorative backing to look like a throne. Another woman standing at the left has just placed a crown on her head and other woman wearing formal gowns and holding small bouquets are seated in rows on either side of the platform. A young boy holding a pillow is seated on the left side of the platform and a young girl holding a basket is seated on the right side. The queen’s cape has been arranged to flare out on the floor in front of her to display the design. Early-mid 1960s image. Image ca. 1954-1959. American. Friedrich “Fred” Gustav Hillmann/Hillmann Studio, photographer. Hillmann Studio Photography Collection, Patrick Heath Public Library. via The Portal to Texas History.

Oh to be the queen of something and ride in convertibles in parades for a year. Various photographers, years and archives.

Mary Ann Mobley, rides in a white convertible. The sign reads, “Mississippi’s 1955 Travel Queen.” Jackson, Mississippi. 1955 photograph. American. Hugh W. Shankle, photographer. Hugh W. Shankle Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/shankle/detail/4839
Linda Lackey rides in a white convertible. The sign reads, “Linda Lackey Of Forest 1961 Maid of Cotton.” Mississippi, USA. 1961 image. American. Hugh W. Shankle, photographer. Hugh W. Shankle Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/shankle/detail/4846
Miss Flame for the Civitan Club riding in a convertible in the Fire Prevention Week parade down Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama. October 4, 1954 image. American. John Engelhardt Scott, photographer. John Engelhardt Scott Negative Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama. https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/photo/id/27999/rec/7

Alabama Poultry Queen riding in a convertible during the Peanut Festival parade in downtown Dothan, Alabama. October 1967 image. This image was taken for (but not used in) the photo spread “Two of Everything,” which appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for October 28-29, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website). American. Jim Peppler, photographer for The Southern Courier Newspaper. John Pepper Southern Courier Photograph Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History. https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/peppler/id/4770/rec/28
Miss Wichita Falls in Armed Services Parade: Photograph of Miss Wichita Falls, Kathy Green, on the back of a convertible, and Doyle Davis, Jaycees president, driving the convertible past the reviewing stand in the Armed Forces Day parade in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. Undated image, ca. 1965. American. John Cochran, photographer for the Wichita Falls Times. Jimmy Cochran Photographs Collection, The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1276365/?q=convertible
Princess of Port Neches Texas: Postcard of a man driving a woman in a convertible in a parade. The woman is sitting underneath an umbrella, and a sign on the car reads, “Princess of Port Neches.” The man driving is wearing a suit and a hat, and the car is decorated with streamers. There is a large building or house in the background with spectators watching from the porch. There are two other visible cars behind the one in the foreground. 1923 postcard. American. Museum of the Gulf Coast via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201824/?q=convertible
Two women riding in Armed Forces Parade: Photograph of two beauty contestants riding on the top of a convertible in the Armed Forces Day parade in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. Undated image, ca. 1965. American. John Cochran, photographer for the Wichita Falls Times. Jimmy Cochran Photographs Collection, The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth802702/?q=convertible
North Texas Homecoming Princess riding through campus in a convertible. Denton, Texas, USA. 1963 image. American. Photographer not given. University of North Texas Special Collections via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth164248/
Photograph of a beauty queen riding on the top of a convertible in the Armed Forces Day parade in downtown Wichita Falls Texas. Her sash reads, “MISS MISSLE 1965.” American. John Cochran, photographer for the Wichita Falls Times. Jimmy Cochran Photographs Collection, The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth802358/
Kendall County Fair Queen in Parade: Contact print of people sitting in a convertible car decorated for the Kendall County Fair parade, including an unidentified man in the driver’s seat and a young woman in a formal gown and gloves perched on top of the back seat. There are garlands, the car fringe is attached along the bottom, and a sign that says “1954 Queen Kay Cartwright.” The car is parked at the side of a road and houses with fenced yards are partially visible in the background. 1954 image. American. Friedrich Gustav Hillmann, photographer. Patrick Heath Library via The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560409/