[Photograph 2012.201.B0262.0535]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A fair detour was on the agenda for Miss Oklahoma of 1964, Guymon's Jane Hitch, as she traveled to the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City."
Date: September 7, 1964
Creator: GM Photographer
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0420]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A contestant in the Miss America Pageant said Friday that she was shocked to learn that her defense of women's and gay liberation and other comments had resulted in g=her being disavowed by her state sponsor."
Date: September 8, 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0077]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A recent migrant from rural North Carolina to Atlantic City, N J., get acquainted with a bathtub, an object he did not know back home"
Date: September 16, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0642]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of them will be miss America Atlantic City, N.J. In three days of talent and bathing suit competition, these six Miss America Beauties excelled."
Date: September 9, 1955
Creator: Gottlieb, Sonnee
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0120]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Grandmother pilot flies Tulsa Girl to Miss America Contest."
Date: September 7, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0121]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At the left, Miss. Donna Briggs takes part in the boardwalk parade that opened the pageant Tuesday afternoon."
Date: September 8, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0643]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NEARER THEIR GOAL MISS AMERICA"
Date: September 15, 1955
Creator: Gottlieb, Sonnee
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0297]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss America blond Evelyn Margaret Ay, bugs her trophy at a breakfast Sunday, after she won the title from 51 other contestants."
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1231.0018]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss America 1972, Laurie Lea Schaefer, says she plans to make a trip to Vietnam to entertain American troops, but she hopes the fighting will be over before she has to go."
Date: September 13, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1231.0002]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Laurie Lea Schaefer, the current Miss America Wore her curlers to a pageant drill in Alantic City, N.J."
Date: September 8, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0298]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A statuesque ash blonde, Evelyn Margaret Ay of Ephrata, Pa. won the title of Miss America of 1954 Saturday night."
Date: September 10, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1299.0889]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Missouri Debbye Turner, a marimba playing veterinary student, was crowned Miss America 1990 on Saturday night."
Date: September 17, 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1325.0373]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Vonda Van Dyke, Miss America 1965, has been named as the co-host to the venerable Bert Parks for the 53rd Annual Miss America Pageant to be telecast from Atlantic City on Saturday, September 8 (10-12 midnight EDT; 9-11 p.m. CDT; 8-10 p.m. MDT; 10-12 midnight PDT) on NBC-TV."
Date: September 10, 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1325.0362]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tears wash some of the glamour away as Miss Arizona, Vonda Van Dyke, left, cries while looking at the trophy she was awarded as Miss CFongeniality, a title bestowed by the 49 other Miss America candidates in Atlantic City Saturday."
Date: September 13, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History