All 15 contestants for the Miss Kansas City 1975 pageant and Miss Kansas City 1974, Madeline Kuppersmith

Description

Two snapshot photographs taped together to show all fifteen Miss Kansas City 1975 contestants lined up on stage in Pierson Auditorium on the Volker campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City in front of gold print drapes with letters attached that spell "Miss Kansas City." The contestant farthest to the left, Melissa Stevens, wears a white evening gown that is gathered at the collar and again at the empire waistline. To her left, the contestant Debbie Watts wears a puffed short-sleeved white floral evening gown with a white ribbon around the empire waistline and ruffles around the round collar. To her left, the contestant Peggy Ramsey wears a white sleeveless jersey evening gown with a scoop-neckline. To her left, the contestant Galen Everhart wears a long-sleeved, ankle-length gray dress with a wide, white collar and cuffs and a large burgundy bow tied below her chin. To her left, the contestant Kathy Brinsa wears a white empire waist evening gown with short puffy sleeves and a scoop-neckline. Elizabeth Hill stands to her left, wearing a shining gun metal gray, halter-top evening gown with a horizontal pin at the base of the collar to form a keyhole in the bodice and a sequined, inset empire waistline. To her left the contestant Sally Prock wears a red sleeveless evening gown with sequined spaghetti straps that attach to a sequin spaghetti-strap collar around her throat. To her left, the contestant Roxanne Eakins wears a white sleeveless, v-neckline evening gown. To her left, the contestant Carol Stauffer wears a white, pink, lavender, and light blue floral, sleeveless evening gown with a crew-neckline and normal waistline. To her left, contestant Traci Lenigan wears a pink, long-sleeved, empire waistline evening gown with a turtle neck and feather around the cuffs. To her left, the contestant Lorna Brotherton wears a mint green evening gown with long sleeves and a lace inset empire waistband, square-neckline, and a ruffle about 12 inches from the floor around the skirt of the dress. To her left the contestant Janet Bell wears a periwinkle blue sleeveless evening gown with a halter neckline that is drawn around the waist with a matching wide waistband. To her left, the contestant Colette Raether wears a white sleeveless evening gown with a normal waistline and where the bodice is gathered at the neck with a turtleneck collar. To her left, the contestant Jane Hawkins wears a light blue long-sleeved evening gown with sequined inset empire waistline and a sequined turtle neck collar. To her left the contestant Denise Debusman wears a dark, long-sleeved, sequined evening gown with a v-neck. To her left, Miss Kansas City 1974, Madeline Kuppersmith, speaks into a microphone on stage as she wears a white, square-neckline evening gown that has a wide waistband from the empire waistline to the waist, a crown, and a corsage on her left shoulder. The backs of heads of two seated audience members are visible at the bottom of the photograph.
March 14, 1975
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Located with Scrapbooks in Box 48, Folder 3 - 4