Vintage Beauty Pageants

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s, Las Vegas

Miss Venus Mona Leroy, Paris, 1955

Beauty Contest, Italy, 1961

Diane Stopky, International Posture Queen, 1957. New York. 1957.

Competitors wore facial masks so that the judges could see only the contestants' bodies. 1947.

Beautiful Legs Competition in Los Angeles, 1949

Hebrew National's Frankfurter Queen 1952

Hebrew National's Frankfurter Queen 1952

Miss Control Tower, 1951 at the Muller Brothers Car Wash, Los Angeles

Miss ITV 1957 during the preview day of the National Radio Show at Earls Court, London.

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s, Las Vegas

Betty Barrett crowned Miss Diaper Queen at a convention for the Diaper Service Institute of America, Chicago, 1947.

'Miss Body & Fender', 'Miss Control Tower', 'Miss Polish Job' and others at a beauty contest organised by the Muller Brothers Car Wash, Los Angeles, 1951

Queen of the Circus, 1959

Geene Courtney as Queen of National Hot Dog Week,  1955

Beverly Jones, Miss Atomic Energy, Long Beach, July 1951

Miss Radio Queen, 1939

Joi Lansing, Queen of Candy of 1964, outside Chunky Candy Pavilion at the 1964's World's Fair.

Jean Willes, Miss Earth, 1952 |

Pat Marlowe, Miss Donut Queen, 1947

Pat Marlowe, Miss Donut Queen, 1947

Kris Nodland, Donut Queen 1951 at the Governor Clinton Hotel in New York. 1951

Miss Atomic Bomb, 1950

Hot Dog Queen