
New York circa 1911.

October 1943. Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg, captain in the Woodrow Wilson High School Cadet Corps, at the school’s Regimental Ball.

Eighteen-year-old Ruth Malcomson, Miss Philadelphia of 1924. Later that year in Atlantic City, she would be crowned Miss America.

1921. Ethel Charles, Nellie Orr and Margaret Gorman at Union Station in Washington, D.C. Margaret would be crowned winner at the very first Miss America pageant.