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Unique Queens

Festival queens, city queens, queens of beauty, and queens of fruit.

At the Gates Rubber Company's May Day celebration, several women in matching costumes, with headbands and ballet shoes, hold long ribbons attached to a Maypole. The May Day queen sits on a stage with a crown and a bouquet of flowers; John Gates stands behind her to the right. Shows interior with wall planters, sectional ceiling, and wood floor, Denver, Colorado.

Photograph of Adolph Mitterer, as he is crowned the winner of a "Beauty Contest" held at West High School in Denver, Colorado. Juanita Burke, another student at the school puts a paper crown on his head. Burke is standing on a small wooden barrel and step stool to place the crown. Mitterer is wearing a floral blouse, long black skirt and army boots.

The Hulett Rodeo Queen and her lady in waiting pose on horseback at the Hulett Rodeo in Hulett (Crook County), Wyoming.

Miss Five Points Beauty Pageant Contestants

Petroleum Queen

Miss Juneteenth Beauty Contestant

Pageant Contestants in car for Juneteenth Parade

Jeannette Lynn is crowned the queen of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the town of Edgewater, Jefferson County, Colorado. She and Mayor Lloyd Doherty stand in the center of a stage; on the left is Ruth Dillner and on the right is Betty Gottschalk, who were attendants; the three women wear strapless evening gowns. Several men in suits and two women, one eldery, are also on the stage. A crowd looks up at the ceremony.

Bust portrait drawing of Emma Glea Woodruff, identified as Apple Queen of Colorado. The young woman wears probably a lace shirt with a ruffled collar, a brooch and a floral corsage.

Men, women and children pose in costume for a group portrait at probably the Albany Hotel parlor on 17th (Seventeenth) and Stout Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Women and men wear seventeenth or eighteenth century court costume and wigs or tuxedos and pose in front of glass tile or stained glass windows. The (probably) Apple Queen wears a crown and holds a staff with ribbons.

Miss Alpine Rose

Miss Ambassador Pageant Queen and other contestants

Beauty contestants pose at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado; women's outfits include velvet, fur, lace, and marcel hair styles. A carved wood ottoman and Buddha are in the background.

The Hulett Rodeo Queen and her lady in waiting pose on horseback at the Hulett Rodeo in Hulett (Crook County), Wyoming.

Miss Betty Jeanne Spittell "Miss Rhythm Record Shop"

Miss Five Points Liquors

The Queen stands on stage with a crown and long robe at the 1923 Winter Sports Carnival Ball, Hot Sulphur Springs, Grand County, Colorado. Other participants and escorts stand around her. A pennant hangs in decorative evergreen backdrop: "$$ Winter Sport."

Ninth Annual Miss Juneteenth Pageant Program