Maid of Cotton, Alice Beasley, 1941. [black and white photoprint]
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content: AC1176-0000024.tif (AC Scan No.)
label: Exhibitions Note
content: Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "The Experience of a Lifetime: The Maid of Cotton Story, 1939-1993", from December 1, 2010 to March 25, 2011. Craig Orr, curator.
name: label: Collector
content: Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
label: Creator
content: Purdy (photographer-U.S.D.A.)
label: Names
content: Beasley, Alice
label: Collection Creator
content: Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
label: Collection Creator
content: National Cotton Council
topic: label: Topic
content: Beauty contestants
label: Topic
content: Beauty contests -- United States
label: Topic
content: Cotton industry
label: Topic
content: Cotton textile industry
creator: label: Collector
content: Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
label: Creator
content: Purdy (photographer-U.S.D.A.)
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content: Maid of Cotton Records
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content: Maid of Cotton Records / Series 1: Organizational and Pageant Files / 1.1: Maid of Cotton Files / Alice Erle Beasley
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Silver gelatin on paper., 10" x 8-1/4".)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Box No. Blue photo box, folder: 1941.
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content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 1940-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: U.S.D.A. Photograph by Purdy. "No. 1 -- Alice Erle Beasley, 1941 Maid of Cotton, sitting atop a cotton-wrapped bale of cotton in the patio of the Department of Agriculture administration building, gives a miniature cotton-wrapped bale to Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, of Indiana. The Secretary has in his hand an invitation to the Memphis Cotton Carnival, May 13-17, signed by Gov. Cooper. The cotton house of the Surplus Marketing Administration, Marketing Division, Department of Agriculture, is in the background."