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A Photographic Retrospective of Beauty Queens Throughout the Years

A remarkable look at how our perception of "beauty" has changed over time
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Viola Dana
Viola Dana sits in a chair of flowers after winning a 1920 beauty contest in Hollywood.

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Lois Delander Joliet, Illinois
Miss America, 1927.

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Frances Marie Burke Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Miss America, 1940.

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Parisienne Beauty
One of the 24 beauty queens chosen by the judges of the first photographic beauty competition, which was sponsored by a Parisian magazine in 1902.

BY AUDREY FINE | SEP 16, 2013 | SHARES
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