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Debutants and queen of the Miss Wilfandel popularity contest at the Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, 1948

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Title: Debutants and queen of the Miss Wilfandel popularity contest at the Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, 1948
Alternative Title: High School Marching Band and Unidentified Beauty Pageant
Date Created and/or Issued: May 6, 1948
1948-05-06
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Image depicting 21 debutants in light colored evening gowns who participated in the popularity contest of the Wilfandel Club women, seated on the stage of the Polytechnic High School in front of a painted landscape backdrop. The winner, Elinor Vera Winston, is in the center.
In 1948 Polytechnic High School was located at Washington Boulevard and South Flower Street.
Photograph was published with the article "Wilfandel names queen," Los Angeles Sentinel, 13 May 1948: 18.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b17_f10_002.tif
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Subject: Debutantes
African American students
Polytechnic High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Albritton, Elinor Vera Winston, b. 1931
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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