Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections

Latina Beauty Queens

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Title

Subject

Beauty contestants

Beauty queens

Mexican American women

Description

Latina Beauty Queens is a digital archive that has preserved photographs from the Emilio Sarabia collection, along with beauty advertisements, columns, and more from American-Hispanic newspapers. The collection highlights how gender roles and expectations affected the growing upper middle class Hispanic-American women in the 20th century.

Creator

Sarabia, Jose

Heart, Alicia

Source

Sarabia Collection, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage

Hispanic American Newspapers

Contributor

Sarabia, Emilio

Rights

Format

JPEG

Language

English

Spanish

Type

Text

Still Image

Identifier

latb0000

Coverage

Texas

San Antonio, Texas

Collection Items

El Concurso de Belleza y Simpatía

Announcement of beauty competition with images of the contestants.

Tags Beauty contest; newspaper; votes
Bellezas Mexicanas

Cover of Gaceta Mexicana with black and white photograph of Señorita Elena Santander. There is a a sticker or label at the bottom that reads "Future Mrs. Curtis Farrington."

Tags beauty; Gaceta Mexicana; makeup; Mexican women; newspaper
[Photograph of a queen with roses]

Several women in costume. May be a pageant, possibly related to benefit society. The label reads: "Crowning of Queen, Note: Mayor Louie Welch"

Tags 1980s; community center; photograph; queen
[Photograph of María Teresa I]

The published announcement of María Teresa winning the paegent. María Teresa is pictured throughout this collection.

Tags 1960s; community center; newspaper; queen; winner; winner announcement
[Photograph of two women in costume]

Two woman in costume and crowns. On the left is a woman with fair skin and on the right woman with dark skin, possibly May 1966.

Tags 1960s
[Photograph of a queen being awarded]

Several woman are dressed in paegent costumes. The queen is awarded something with her court in background.

Tags 1980s; community center; photograph; queen
[Photograph of a queen being crowned]

Woman in costume with crown, roses, septor, and cape. She is not pictured in the collection again.

Tags 1980s; community center; photograph; queen
[Photograph of Leticia Reyna]

Two women, with the middle women holding roses, and wearing a crown and a long cape. Woman on the left is wearing a sash that says "Benito Juarez." Unidentified male on the right, likely a date or dance partner.

Tags photograph
[Photograph of Disecliva 1984-85]

Multiple older people surround a woman wearing a crown in the middle. Multiple woman are wearing a sash and gold ribbons.

Tags photograph
[Photograph of people dancing ]

Possibly a debutante ball. Multiple woman are wearing crowns and dancing with their dates.

Tags 1960s; black and white; dancing; men and women

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