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Title
California beauties
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Both, Darlene Tompkins and Charlotte Stewart, went on to have television acting careers. Stewart, is best known for her work as Miss Beadle on Little House on the Prairie.
Photograph caption dated June 25, 1959 reads, "Darlene Tompkins, right, who is representing East San Fernando Valley in Miss California Beauty Pageant, welcomes contestants, from left, Charlotte Stewart, Miss Yuba City; and Gloria Neil, Miss Palm Springs, on their arrival at Lockheed Air Terminal today to begin four-day stay in Burbank where they will compete for crown of Miss California, statewide preliminary to Miss Universe Pageant."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00126448
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d031_f29_i6
CARL0005435083
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/58172
Subject
Tompkins, Darlene,--1940-
Stewart, Charlotte,--1941-
Lockheed Air Terminal, Inc
Beauty contests--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Beauty contestants--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women's hats--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Handbags--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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