Glamour

Portrait of Koreshan Victor Bubbett - Estero

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/256451 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/256451 ) ..Local call number: KOR0712..Title: Portrait of Koreshan Victor Bubbett - Estero..Date: January 16, 1902..Phy... more

Bathing beach beauty contest, [1920], Eliz. Roache (most beautiful suit)

Unidentified young woman modeling by the beach

Local call number: N049215..Title: Unidentified young woman modeling by the beach..Personal author: Barron, Charles..Date: ca. 1940s..General note: Charles "Chuck" Barron was a Tallahassee-based photo... more

Unidentified woman in Sarasota reading about winter storms up North

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/246341 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/246341 ) ..Local call number: JJS1118..Title: Unidentified woman in Sarasota reading about winter storms up North..Date:... more

Student pilot Jean McRae of Homosassa: Tallahassee, Florida

Local call number: n042081..Title: [Student pilot Jean McRae of Homosassa: Tallahassee, Florida] ..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. ..Date captured: Spring 1940. ..Repository: State Library... more

Passengers on a Pan Am Boeing 307

Local call number: Rc15258..Title: [Passengers on a Pan Am Boeing 307] ..Publication info: Between 1940 and 1947..Physical descrip: 1 photoprint: b&w; 10 x 8 in...Series Title: (Reference collection)..Gener... more

Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop

Local call number: JJS0283..Title: Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop..Date: 1941..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz C... more

Young women at the municipal casino: Lido Beach, Florida

Local call number: JJS0370..Title: Young women at the municipal casino: Lido Beach, Florida..Date: ca. 1945..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection... more

Model with a basket of flowers: Sarasota, Florida

Local call number: JJS0093 ..Title: Model with a basket of flowers: Sarasota, Florida..Date: ca. 1945..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in. ..Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( ht... more

Young woman modeling a two-piece swim suit in Tampa, Florida

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/66749 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/66749 ) ..Local call number: C006224..Title: Young woman modeling a two-piece swim suit in Tampa, Florida..Date: ... more

Jean Duket, Miss Tampa, modeling a two-piece bathing suit

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/66823 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/66823 ) ..Local call number: C006356..Title: Jean Duket, Miss Tampa, modeling a two-piece bathing suit..Date: May... more

Young women with members of the Three-Quarter Century Softball Club in St. Petersburg, Florida

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/245082 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/245082 ) ..Local call number: JJS0185..Title: Young women with members of the Three-Quarter Century Softball Club in St.... more

Young women reading aboard the shantyboat Lazy Bones

Local call number: JJS0426..Title: Young women reading aboard the shantyboat Lazy Bones..Date: December 1947..General Note: Helen Schoonover (top bunk) and Lois Duncan Steinmetz reading on a trip up the Caloosa... more

Unidentified woman holding gladiolus at Terra Ceia Island Farms, Florida

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/245323 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/245323 ) ..Local call number: JJS0361A..Title: Unidentified woman holding gladiolus at Terra Ceia Island Farms, ... more

Nora Carrol and Lois Duncan Steinmetz: Sarasota, Florida

Local call number: JJS0372B..Title: Nora Carrol and Lois Duncan Steinmetz: Sarasota, Florida..Date: November 17, 1948..General Note: Taken for Collier's at Sarasota Jungle Gardens. ..Physical descrip: 1 transpa... more

Lois Duncan Steinmetz gazing at the Suwannee River

Local call number: JJS0379..Title: Lois Duncan Steinmetz gazing at the Suwannee River..Date: 1949..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( http://... more

Adeline Finke modeling on Miami Beach, Florida

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/69565 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/69565 ) ...Local call number: C012609...Title: Adeline Finke modeling on Miami Beach, Florida..Date: December 21,... more

Sarasota Sun-Debs training at Lido Beach, Florida

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/245626 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/245626 ) ..Local call number: JJS0645..Title: Sarasota Sun-Debs training at Lido Beach, Florida..Date: ca. 1949.... more

Sarasota Sun-Debs at Lido Beach, Florida

Local call number: JJS0010..Title: Sarasota Sun-Debs at Lido Beach, Florida..Date: January 15, 1949..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( http:... more

Nora Carrol and Lois Duncan Steinmetz: Sarasota, Florida

Local call number: JJS0202..Title: Nora Carrol and Lois Duncan Steinmetz: Sarasota, Florida..Date: November 1949..Accompanying Note: "Fill-in shots done on Cover-girl sequence for Collier's."..Physica... more

Lois Duncan Steinmetz (left) and Polly Gaines in a motorboat: Sarasota, Florida

Local call number: JJS0214..Title: Lois Duncan Steinmetz (left) and Polly Gaines in a motorboat: Sarasota, Florida..Date: 1950..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney S... more

Barbara Laney modeling a two-piece swin suit: Winter Haven, Florida

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/94795 ( http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/94795 ) ..Local call number: CWH1154..Title: Barbara Laney modeling a two-piece swim suit: Winter Haven, Florida.... more

Modeling a dress at Villa Vizcaya - Miami

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/46855 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/46855 ) ..Local call number: RP06107..Title: Modeling a dress at Villa Vizcaya - Miami..Date: ca 1960..Physical descrip: ... more

Modeling a bathing suit at Villa Vizcaya - Miami

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/46856 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/46856 ) ..Local call number: RP06108..Title: Modeling a bathing suit at Villa Vizcaya - Miami..Date: ca 1960..Physical de... more

Sikkimese princess in ceremonial dress

Photograph shows Princess Suang La, half-length portrait, seated facing front, wearing headress and necklace, Sikkim.

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, in brocaded dress, walking to the Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple) during the King's birthday celebration, Gangtok, Sikkim]

"Miss Washington" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Miss Dorothy Parker has been selected as Miss Washington and will compete for the title of "Miss America" at the Atlantic City beauty pageant to be held during Labor Day week. 18 Years old, she weighs 112 pounds and is 5 feet, 4 inches in height. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Albert Parker of Washington, 8/4/38

School Pageant on Child Labor themes, N.Y.C. - June 5

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine.Artist Bio: American, 1874 - 1940.Creation Date: 1916.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Daniel D. Bumstead.Accession Number: 1985.037.030

Miss M.B. Cain, 6/27/22

Miss Maude Rowe, 6/23/23

"McIntyre meets the Ladies" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Three of Washington's loveliest meet the Secretary to the president, and are shown thru the White House. The girls have been competing for the title of Miss Washington, and Miss Dorothy Parker, left; won. Next Marvin McIntyre, Nadine Petrrey, 2nd place, and Miss Toni Mann, who placed third, Miss Parker will take part in the nation wide contest to be held in Atlantic City Labor Day, for the title of Miss America, she weighs 112 lbs, and is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and is 18 years old, 8/4/38

Miss Catherine Wo[...]all, 7/26/23

Miss Marion Grimes, Mrs. Anthony Wayne C[...], & Eugenia Lejeune 4/14/24

Miss Dorothy Brautigam of Nat'l. American Ballet, 6/30/25

Michigan Peach Queen arrives. Washington, D.C., Aug. 31. The newly crowned Peach Queen of Michigan, Lois Beal, waves a greeting as she arrived by plane in the Capitol today to deliver a basket of the fruit to the White House. Miss Beal comes from Romeo, Michigan

Miss Ruth Bennett, rep. McMillian of S.C. & Miss Sylvia Clairus, 2/23/26

Lowel factory girls, Women's Nat'l Trade Union League Pageant, 5/9/28

Bernstein and Felicia in evening dress at Philharmonic Pension Fund Concert. September. (Music Division)

White House takes on Christmas dress. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. Workmen were busily engaged today putting the Christmas decorations on the front of the White House. The decorations are set ablaze with gayly colored lights on Christmas Eve at the same time President Roosevelt presses the switch to light the community Xmas tree

Epochs of men's dress

Senatorial Beauty. Washington, D.C. June 4. A real beauty in the senatorial circle is Mrs. Claude A. Pepper, wife of the United States Senator from Florida. She is pictured about to take her daily dip in the wardman pool, 6/4/37

Sousa with Atlantic City Pageant Contestants

[Young women modeling: Full lgth., seated, holding lyre]

[Evalyn (Walsh) McLean, 1886-1947, full-length portrait, seated in a chair, wearing long dress and feathered hat]

Mrs. Edward Beale McLean; daughter of Thomas F. Walsh.

Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley [inaugural dress from First Ladies Collection], 9/3/24

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf

Description: This photo was taken in 1963, as physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was being escorted by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden to a gala banquet following the ceremony during which she received the ... more

Mrs. Garfield [inaugural dress from First Ladies Collection], 9/3/24

[Young women modeling: facing left, with laurel of beads]

[ Danny Kaye onstage, surrounded by performers in Celtic dress]

Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Anderson, Taimi Toffer 1937-..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956..Topic: Science fairs. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0105]..Summary: In ... more

[Young woman modeling: head and shoulders, wearing plumed hat and low-cut dress]

Beauty contest winners visit the White House. Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Marvin McIntyre, Secretary to the President greets Miss Dorothy Parker, of Washington, DC, winner of the beauty contest held in Washington annually. 18yrs old, she weighs 112lbs, and is 5 feet, 4 inches, in height, Miss Parker, will compete for the title of Miss America in Atlantic City Labor Day, 8/4/38

Monopoly Committee turns to housewives for advice on consumer products. Washington, D.C., May 10. Mrs. Alice Belester of Chicago, wife of a carpenter, who was called by the Monopoly Committee today to tell, as Secretary of the United Conference Against the High Cost of Living, what she thought of advertising of products used by housewives. She pointed out some ads which she said, 'is useless to me,' because it failed to mention what grade and weight material was in the dress advertised. 'I don't go in for colored pictures,' she firmly added

Beauty show, 8/5/22

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell

Description: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) is shown here (at right) with actress Katherine Cornell and physicist Arthur H. Compton on June 6, 1946, when Meitner and Cornell were receiving awa... more

Beauty contestants, 11/26/23

The 1952 Miss Shrewsbury Competition

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Cystadleuaeth 'Miss Shrewsbury' 1952.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: August 1, 1952.Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative.Cyfeiriad/Referen... more

Woman with African sausage tree at the McKee Jungle Gardens in Vero Beach

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/258118 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/258118 ) ..Local call number: KOR2295..Title: Woman with African sausage tree at the McKee Jungle Gardens in Vero Beach.... more

Portret Lettie van Lier-van Wijk, mannequin van Hirsch, in japon zittend

French millinery, dress & flower making establishment / on stone by Jas. Queen ; P.S. Duval, Lith. Phila.

Print shows a variety of bonnets on stands on a table. Includes text advertising Madame Petit's millinery store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Reminiscences of a fancy dress ball, in Philadelphia, February 1850 / drawn from nat: & on stone by C. Harnisch ; P.S. Duval's steam lith. Press, Philada.

Print shows a crowd at "Masonic Hall" during "Naylor's Grand Fancy Dress Party", a masquerade with an orchestra playing on the right as revelers mingle on the main floor and on the balconies. [Source: Library C... more

First Ladies Gowns, Julia Dent Grant

Description: Gown worn by Julia Dent Grant, wife of President (1869-1877) Ulysses S. Grant first lady of the White House, . This gown was worn by Mrs. Grant at the second inaugural ball in 1873. It is made of w... more

Seashore bathing

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing at edge of ocean, in bathing suit, with left hand on boat, facing right]

A Life saver on the lookout

New York - a scene at Long Beach, the new and popular seaside resort / from a sketch by a staff artist.

People on beach and in the water, Long Beach, New York.

[Crowded beach, Atlantic City, N.J.]

In the surf at Old Orchard, Me.

[Lottie Collins, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, left hand on hip]

[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, standing facing front, wearing fig leaf]

[Eugen Sandow, half-length portrait, standing facing right, wearing fig leaf, looking upward]

[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, seated on stool facing right, hands behind head, wearing fig leaf]

Sandow / Sarony.

Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, standing, nude, view from back.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, standing facing left, wearing fig leaf]

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, facing left, right arm raised] / Steckel, Los Angeles, Cal.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, facing left] / Steckel, Los Angeles, Cal.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, facing right, leaning on pillar] / Steckel, 220 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, rear view, right arm raised] / Steckel, 220 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Sandow / Steckel, Los Angeles, Cal.

Three-quarter length portrait, seated on pedestal, wearing fig(?) leaf, facing front, looking upward.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, rear view, hands on head] / Steckel, Los Angeles, Cal.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, lying, facing left, wearing fig(?) leaf]

[Eugen Sandow, half-length portrait facing left, nude]

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing by column, facing left]

[Molly Fuller, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in costume]

Sandow / Falk.

Photograph shows Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, standing, body facing front, head turned to the left, hands behind his back.

Night

Photograph shows a nude woman standing on a crescent moon, holding, horizontally, a bamboo pole with an owl perched on each end.

Night / Copyrighted 1896 by Chas. I. Berg.

A nude woman draped in gauzy fabric posing as if a statue.

Unidentified dancer

Unidentified dancer

Unidentified dancer

The three graces, Atlantic City, N.J.

Stereograph showing three young women at the beach, posing together wearing bathing suits, wading in the water.

A jolly crowd, Atlantic City, N.J.

Stereograph showing large group of men and women in bathing suits mugging for photographers while wading in the ocean near the beach.

Vacation sports at the seaside

Stereograph shows women in bathing suits striking poses on the beach at Coney Island.

[Woman wearing corset, brushing her hair, half-length portrait, standing, facing front]

[On the beach, Atlantic City, N.J.]

Atlantic City "beauty contest"?

[Young woman, wearing negligee, lying in bed, holding book]

In the harem

Photograph shows young woman in harem costume smoking and holding box of (Turkish?) cigarettes.

Miss Gladys Cooper as "Beauty", Miss Alexandra Carlisle as "Everywoman", Miss Patricia Collinge as "Youth", in "Everywoman"

[Woman, "Flora," posing in studio, three-quarter length, standing, facing right, holding flowers] / E.J. McCullagh, Stockton, Cal.