Beauty Pageant Panoramic Photos & Found Serendipities, 1920's-'30's

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These images come from the Library of Congress website--many of them wound up in my pinterest account.  The link for both for each image are found below.  Photographs like this--wide panoramas of big groups of people--are fascinating for the collection of moments that it captures, wall-to-wall serendipities.    [See the  Library of Congress panorama collection.]

Galveston Beauty Review, 1927 [detail]

 

 

 

Detail of below, featuring an unfortunate bath suit selection and a clump of men and boys.  Perhaps it is more "wad" than "clump", like a murder of crows.   

Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, California 

Balboa Beach Bathing Beauty Parade, 1925 (detail from below) 

 

Inter-city Bathing Beauties, Atlantic City, 1927 

Long Beach, California, Bath Beauty Parade, 1927. (I don't know what the story is with women in the back row...)

Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, May 21, 22, 23, 1927, Galveston, Texas.

Third International Pageant of Pulchritude and Ninth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, view with arms up, Galveston, Texas

 

Bathing Girl Parade, Seal Beach, California 

(...which is a detail from the below:)

 Jewell Pathe's Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for "Captain Blood", Balboa Beach, California, June 15, 1924

Miss America Pageant, September 7th to 12th, 1953, Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J.