missamerica

11 photos tagged missamerica, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1900

2021

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swanq said:
The Wikipedia page for her seems to be missing the second "l" which appears in her last name in the annotation by the photographer in this Bain photo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Malcomson She appears with and without the "l." The Miss America page www.missamerica.org/organization/history/ has a picture with "Malcolmson" as written by the photographer on the Bain copy. But the entry for 1924 at the right has "Malcomson." www.findagrave.com/memorial/18807692/ruth-schaubel does not have a gravestone for her, but the gravestones for her father and mother use "Malcomson."
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq. I'm pretty sure she spelled her name "Malcomson". I found census records spelling it that way and some other articles about her, including a short interview from the 1980's spelling it that way.

B-59 said:
Another photo or her ran in the South Bend news-times., September 11, 1921, First Section, Image 1 with the caption: "One thousand beauties passed in review before 150.000 people at the Atlantic City pageant. In that thousand none was more beautiful than Margaret Gorman, of Washington, according to a committee of judges headed by Howard Chandler Christy. She was awarded tie Golden Mermaid, a trophy valued at $5,000. She also won the bathing beauty contest." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87055779/1921-09-11/ed-...
B-59 said:
"Margaret Gorman (August 18, 1905 – October 1, 1995) was the first Miss America, from the year 1921." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Gorman
Hanna (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks @b-59! Great additional info find in Chronicling America! Will update the record accordingly.