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  • Miss America, 1945 : Bess Myerson's own story / Susan Dworkin.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Newmarket Press, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 87-6413Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Myerson, B.) 94-768Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • To be somebody [videorecording] : a black magazine / KCRA-TV, Sacramento ; producer, Adrian Woodfork ; director, George Zuspann.

    • Moving image
    • Sacramento, Calif. : KCRA-TV, 1979-04.
    • 1979
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-753 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-1024Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Queen Bess : an unauthorized biography of Bess Myerson / Jennifer Preston.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Contemporary Books, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 90-3396Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Suzette Charles portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <198-?>
    • 1980-1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Charles, SuzetteSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Yvonne Owens portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1955.>
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Owens, YvonneSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Photographs of Miami and other Florida locations [graphic] / Gleason Waite Romer.

    • Still image
    • 1925-1956.
    • 1925-1956
  • The crowning touch : preparing for beauty pageant competition / by Anna Stanley.

    • Text
    • San Diego : Box of Ideas Pub., c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWFD 93-13195Offsite
  • A bright shining place : the story of a miracle / by Cheryl, Miss America 1980, with Kathryn Slattery.

    • Text
    • Tulsa, Okla. : Eagle Run Pub., c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Prewitt C.) 95-3262Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Best for me / Becki Trueblood ; as told to Rhonda Graham.

    • Text
    • Boise, Idaho : Pacific Press Pub. Association, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 95-24636Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Yes, you can, Heather! : the story of Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995 / by her mother, Daphne Gray, with Gregg Lewis.

    • Text
    • Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Pub. House, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 96-3018Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Heather Whitestone : Miss America with a mission / Jill C. Wheeler.

    • Text
    • Edina, Minn. : Abdo & Daughters, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Whitestone) 96-14305Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Lost in the system / Charlotte Lopez ; with Susan Dworkin.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 96-21685Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Miss/Mrs./Mr. Nubian Hawaii pageant.

    • Text
    • [Honolulu, Hawaii : Nubian Pageant Systems, 1999-
    • 1999-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-M .M735 1st-7th (1994, 1996-1999)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • El culto a las reinas de Sinaloa y el poder de la belleza / Arturo Santamaría Gómez.

    • Text
    • Culiacán : Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa : Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Sinaloa ; [Mazatlán] : Comisión de Promoción y Desarrollo Turístico de Mazatlán, [1997]
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 99-595Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Mr. Nubian Hawaii.

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii : Rainey & Rainey Enterprises, 1994-
    • 1994-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-M .M735 1st-7th (1994, 1996-1999)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Miss/Mrs. Nubian Hawaii pageant.

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii : Nubian Pageant Systems
    • 199-1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-M .M735 1st-7th (1994, 1996-1999)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Who would have thought ... / by Sheri Rose Shepherd with Steven Gene Shepherd and Tom DiBiase.

    • Text
    • Scottsdale, Ariz. : Shepherd Marketing, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Shepherd, S.) 03-3884Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Listening with my heart / by Heather Whitestone with Angela Elwell Hunt.

    • Text
    • New York : Doubleday, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Whitestone-McCallum, H.) 02-6909Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Miss Venezuela / [curaduría, Eduardo Planchart].

    • Text
    • Caracas : Museo Jacobo Borges, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 01-1401Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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  • Ma bonne étoile / Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut.

    • Text
    • Neuilly-sur-Seine : Lafon, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 04-10519Offsite
  • Beauty culture [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [193-]-[198-]
    • 198-198
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Beauty cultureSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Smile [videorecording] / Lawrence Gordon, Richard M. Kagan, Sidney L. Shlenker, present ; associate producers, Barbara Livitz, Ronald and Barbara Balser ; music by Marvin Hamlisch ; book and lyrics by Howard Ashman ; based upon the screenplay by Jerry Belson ; directed by Howard Ashman ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 561 Videodiscs 1 and 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Misses de Venezuela : reinas que cautivaron a un país : crónicas reportajes y testimonios del concurso Miss Venezuela.

    • Text
    • Caracas, Venezuela : Los Libros de el Nacional, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 07-15309Offsite
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  • Pageant (Musical : Rice) : programs.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-PRG (Pageant (Musical : Rice))Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India / Susan Dewey.

    • Text
    • Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 08-5466Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Queen of the Virgins : pageantry and black womanhood in the Caribbean / M. Cynthia Oliver.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 10-1119Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 10-274Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • L'histoire secrète des Miss France / Xavier de Fontenay.

    • Text
    • Paris : Flammarion, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 10-21679Offsite
  • Emelina, la belleza que alumbró a la República : orígenes de los concursos de misses en España, 1929-1932 / Enrique Sánchez Lubián.

    • Text
    • [Ciudad Real] : Diputación Provincial de Ciudad Real, Área de Cultura, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 10-30976Offsite
  • Nayakumbuka yote / Hoyce Temu.

    • Text
    • Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 11-1394Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A Don't Hug Me County Fair / book and lyrics by Phil Olson ; music by Paul Olson.

    • Text
    • New York : Samuel French, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 10-33Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Captive of love / by Emmanuel Onyedi Wingate.

    • Text
    • Owerri, Nigeria : Cel-Bez Didactic Books, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 12-216Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Queens of academe : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.

    • Text
    • New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 13-2933Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Soviet beauty queens.

    • Text
    • [New York, N.Y.] : Dashwood Books, [2011]
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFWY 13-2609Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308

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  • Queens of academe [electronic resource] : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.

    • Text
    • New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
    • 2012
    • 2 Resources

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  • Fit for a crown / I. Izegbuwa.

    • Text
    • Magodo, Lagos : LifeChoice, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 14-747Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Capítulo final : el homicidio de Mónica Spear / María Isoliett Iglesias, Deivis Ramírez Miranda ; prólogo de Leonardo Padrón.

    • Text
    • Caracas : Ediciones B Venezuela S.A., septiembre 2014.
    • 2014-9
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 15-15654Offsite
  • Queen of the Virgins [electronic resource] : pageantry and black womanhood in the Caribbean / M. Cynthia Oliver.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Resources

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  • Ya no quiero callar : mi historia como testigo, amante y confidente de Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela / Aura Rocío Restrepo.

    • Text
    • Bogotá : Planeta, agosto de 2014.
    • 2014-8
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 18-12819Offsite
  • JonBenet Ramsey : murder mystery theater!!! , 2012/13 : reviews.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-NBL+ Collection 2012/13 (JonBenet Ramsey: murder mystery theater!!!) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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  • Photographs / Jacqueline Beer.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-Pho BPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Death by tiara / Laura Levine.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Check with Staff
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  • Little Miss Sunshine (Musical : Finn) : programs.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-PRG (Little Miss Sunshine (Musical : Finn))Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Little Miss Sunshine (Musical : Finn) : clippings.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-CLP (Little Miss Sunshine (Musical : Finn))Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Beyond Miss World : an autobiography of Jennifer Hosten, Miss World 1970 / Jennifer Hosten with Shaun Sarsfield.

    • Text
    • Barbados : Ronald Watson/Cole's Printing, [2008]
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 21-13759Offsite
  • Siempre : la leyenda de la pecosa de ojos verdes / Jairo Berbel.

    • Text
    • [Quito] : Editorial El Conejo, [2016]
    • 2016-2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 17-13409Offsite
  • Nubian prince & princess Hawaii pageant.

    • Text
    • Honolulu, Hawaii : Rainey & Rainey Enterprises
    • 1994-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-M .N6835 1st ed. (1994)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Nubian prince/princess Westchester County pageant.

    • Text
    • [United States] : Nubian Pageant Systems, Inc.
    • 2001-2
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-M .N6837 1st edition (2001)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Roses fines : les fabuloses biografies de les guanyadores del concurs de bellesa de léxposició regional de 1909 / Francesc J. Hernàncez.

    • Text
    • [València] : Editorial Sargantana, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 17-33545Offsite
  • JonBenet murder case / J.D. Rockefeller.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified] : Vedette, [2013]
    • 2013-2013
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 18-4718Offsite
  • Beauty parade / words and music by Andrew Donnelly.

    • Notated music
    • New York : Edward B. Marks Music, [1929]
    • 1929-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music M.C. (International beauty tour)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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