Sweetheart Beauty Pageant winners

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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-10-5 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p10-00005)

PARENT COLLECTION

Kinoshita Collection

DESCRIPTION

Finalists in the Minidoka concentration camp Sweetheart Beauty Pageant surround the winner. Left to right: Barbara Kurimura, Pauline Tamiyasu, Chizuko Hayashi, Kimi Takatsuka, Noble Kodama, Pearl Hirata, and Fumi Kinoshita. The Sweetheart Beauty Pageant began in the winter of 1943. The contest was designed to lighten the mood of the camp. Each block, or camp division, would nominate a candidate, and the winner was crowned on Valentine's Day.

DATE

c.1943

LOCATION

Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho

OBJECT GENRE

Photographs

OBJECT FORMAT

Still Image

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the Kinoshita Family Collection

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