Beauty Contest, 40 “ladies” at the “InterCity Beauties Showmen’s Variety Jubilee”
40 “ladies” at the “InterCity Beauties Showmen’s Variety Jubilee” held at Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Ladies from cities and states throughout U.S. are represented. Sept. 3rd to 8th, 1935. Frame 10” x 50.” DATED: 1935.
Beauty Contests – The Truth about Beauty Contests, “See” Magazine
See Magazine, "The Truth about Beauty Contests"
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Business Entrepreneur, Betty Crocker Pin Back Buttons
Betty Crocker Pin Back Buttons
- Metal stamped pin with a 3 dimensional portrait of Betty Crocker in the center and in the background a scene of a Dad coming home from work, waving at his wife as she stands at the door of their home, while their young son and dog race to meet him. Printed at the bottom is “Home Legion,” around the edge says, “Presented for Distinguished Service.” Betty Crocker was a fictional advertising person created in 1921 as a way to give personalized responses to consumer product questions about cooking. During the Second World War, General Mills started the Betty Crocker Home Legion, which encouraged women to keep the home fires burning. “I believe homemaking requires the best of my efforts, my abilities and my thinking,” read a Betty-signed screed sent to their members members. By the end of the war they had a membership of 700,000. Medal 1-3/4” diameter. Information from wikipedia. DATED: Early to mid 1940s.
- Celluloid Button with her Betty Crocker “logo” picture in soft tones of beige and brown, with blue eyes and pale red lips. Lithographic button, 1-1/2” diameter. DATE: 1950s.
Business Sales – Egg-O Baking Powder
Egg-O Baking Powder Co. black and white 6-1/2” x 4-1/2” photograph of 11 sales women standing in and around the front of a fake car that sits at the hollowed out section of an old tree. They are dressed in suits and hats and holding cans of Egg-O Baking Powder and signs advertising Egg-O. Hand written on the back, “Notice who is at the wheel of success. This is only part of the crew – some of the Demonstrators were out of town and some in Store,” Egg-O Baking Powder Co., Hamilton, Canada, Directions is English and French. Stanley Park Photographers, Vancouver, B.C.
Business Typists, American Slicing Machine Company
American Slicing Machine Company black and white photograph of 13 women typist working at desks, appears one woman is dictating from a book while the seated women type. A RR Donnelley & Sons calendar is on the wall, a Chicago print company founded in 1864. Window sign says “American Slicing Machine Company.”
Chorus Line – Jack SingerĘĽs Chorus Line Stage Performers
Chorus Line Stage Performers, Photographs
Framed post card advertising the “Jack Singerʼs Stock Company in Burlesque Successes.” Front has a black and white photograph of 32 ladies in “...a line of Jack Singerʼs Chicago Beauty Chorus.” In parenthesis in tiny print “Who do you know?” Typed on the message side is, “You should see Jack Singerʼs Stock Co. at the Columbia. This is Some Show and Some Girls. Yours,” The back side of card advertises the company and lists the names of performers. Along the top is printed “Columbia Theatre, Clark & Madison, Twice Daily, Summer Prices,” and along the bottom “40--Chicago Beauty Chorus--40.” Card not sent, requires a 1C stamp.
12-1/2” wide by 5” in black frame with glass on both sides.
DATED: Late 1920s into the 30s.
Chorus Line – Rockettes Chorus Line Photo
Rockettes, precision dance troupe in patriotic outfits seen in folded full size color photograph from Sunday news section. Photographer, Warnecke and Cranston, dated May 7, 1939. Founded in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri and since December 27, 1932 have performed out of Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Chorus Line – Ziegfeld Follies Program
Ziegfeld Follies Program, California Auditorium, Golden Gate International Exposition, 20 pages of photographs of the stage performers. Includes a separate typed sheet for the “Program” listing 17 numbers with names of songs and performers. DATED: 1939.
Performer in Circus, Knitting with Toes
A woman in chair knitting w/toes, 2 pieces of paper seen in the photo, one says, “ Forget others faults by remembering your own.” Handwritten name on back difficult to read. Werner & Kern, Bowery, N.Y.
Performer in Circus, Blanche Zelka with snakes
Blanche Zelka, snake charmer. holding 2 snakes. Wife of Arizona Governor. Shepherd Photo. Co., St. Paul, Minn.
Performer in Circus, Ella Ewing 8 feet tall
Ella Ewing pictured at 22, over 8 feet tall, the “Missouri Giantess: 1872 - 1913.” Culbertson Photographer, Gorin, Mo. DATED: 1894.
Performer in Circus, Ida Williams 517 lbs.
Ida Williams, born in Columbus, Ohio, 1870s - 1890s, 517 lbs. at age 19, ca. 1875. Photographed in New York.
Performer in Circus, Little Lady
Little Lady, woman standing next to an adult size chair. Wendt Photography, Bounton, New Jersey. DATED: 1889.
Sports – Sonja Heine pinback button
Celluloid Sonja Henie Button, pink background with her portrait in black and white, says, “Skate for Pleasure” w/her signature at the bottom. 1937 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 3/4” diameter. DATED: 1937 into 1940s.
Sports Photo – Bonnie McCarrol Thrown from Silver
Photograph of “Bonnie McCarrol Thrown from Silver” by W.S. Bowman No. 29-c, not used. A champion rodeo performer and bronc rider most remembered for her death at the Pendleton Round-up in Pendleton, Oregon, September 1929.
Working Women – Leaflet When Women Work
Leaflet When Women Work, 2 leaflets from “Womenʼs Bureau - U.S. Department of Labor, Government Printing Office, 1921, ecru heavy paper with black print and sketches, cover shows women leaving work, inside panels say, “Health...Happiness...Efficiency with framed ink drawings asking for “8 hour day, Saturday half-holiday NOT unlimited working hours, NOT night work BUT normal sleep, a shade and a chair, NOT a cramp and a glare!” Outside panels say “Equality, Is a job worth less because a woman does it? Wages based on the job-not the sex” and “America will be as strong as her women” with corresponding pictures. DATED: 1921
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