Contestants 51 through 60 during the K.C. Boat, Sports & Travel Show

Description

Contestants 51 through 60 stand on the stage during the K.C. Boat, Sports & Travel Show, held in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri with a flag of the United States of America behind them on the stage to their right sides. Contestant 51, farthest to the left wears a brown bikini, brown shoes, and holds her contestant card in her left hand over the middle of her body. To her left is contestant 52 wearing a white one-piece swimsuit with black vertical paisleys and has a white Nehru collar. She holds her contestant card in her left hand down by her left side. The number is mostly not visible to the photographer. To her left is contestant 53 who wears a shiny salmon-colored bikini and holds her contestant card in her left side down by her left hip. To her left is contestant 54 who is an African American contestant and wears a white bikini and black shoes. She holds her contestant card in her left hand and the number is not visible to the photographer. To her left stands contestant number 55, another African American contestant, who wears a black two-piece swimsuit where the two pieces are joined together over her tummy by a black ring. She wears black pumps and holds her contestant card in her left hand down by her left thigh. To her left is contestant 56 who wears a red bikini, a red choker necklace, and red pumps. She holds her contestant card in her left hand over her left hip. To her left is contestant 57 who wears a one-piece swimsuit where the top is white with a black ring in the center to meet where the black material of the bottom comes up to meet the bodice to make the top white part look like a vest over a black one-piece swimsuit. She wears white sandals and holds her contestant card in her left hand down by her left hip. To her left is contestant 58 who wears a black one-piece swimsuit that laces up the center, and silver sandals. She holds her contestant card in both hands over the center of her body. Contestant 49 is an African American contestant who wears a one-piece swimsuit where the top is white, the sewn-in belt is beige, and the bottom is likely olive green. She wears black pumps and holds her contestant card in her left hand where her arm comes over the number down by her left hip. To her left is contestant 60 who wears a white one-piece swimsuit that ties in the center of the bodice. She wears a silver necklace and white pumps as she holds her contestant card in her left hand down by her left hip.
January 28 - February 6, 1972
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Located with Scrapbooks in Box 48, Folder 5 - 6