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Miss America Visits Madison
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Young Madison girls requesting autographs of Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, during a fashion show at the Casey and O'Brien, Inc. store on Atwood Avenue. She was in Madison on a stop of her tour of the country. She is wearing a tiara, long white gloves and a gown. Philco appliances are in the background.
October 22, 1957
Stein, Edwin
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Miss America Visits Madison
October 22, 1957
Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country.
Miss America Visits Madison
October 22, 1957
Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, pinning charity information to a board at the United Givers' Fund at the banquet during the Madison stop on her tour of the country.
Miss America Visits Madison
October 22, 1957
Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, being crowned "Madison's Miss 1957 United Givers' Fund Queen" at the charity's banquet during the Madison stop on her tour of the country.
Miss America Visits Madison
October 22, 1957
Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, giving a speech at Madison's United Givers' Fund banquet during the Madison stop on her tour of the country.
Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's
May 10, 1957
Teenage fashion show held at Harry S. Manchester women's clothing store to display twenty Vogue Pattern Service dress pattern styles. One of the models is Virginia Ward (4210 Mohawk Drive), a senio...
Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's
May 10, 1957
Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue pattern fashion show at Manchester's.
