Helen Louise Schneider Baby Beauty Contests Photograph Album
name: label: Creator
content: Schneider, Florence C. Woller, 1895-1983
label: Former owner
content: Between the Covers Rare Books
label: Names
content: Schneider, Helen Louise
topic: label: Topic
content: Contests, Baby
label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Parades
label: Topic
content: Boardwalks -- New Jersey
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection purchased in July 2018.
creator: label: Creator
content: Schneider, Florence C. Woller, 1895-1983
setName: label: See more items in
content: Helen Louise Schneider Baby Beauty Contests Photograph Album
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photograph album primarily documenting Helen Louise Schneider as a contestant in baby beauty contests in New Jersey.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Helen Louise Schneider (March 27,1922-January 21,1997) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Frank Emerson Schneider (July 11, 1892-November 12, 1971) and Florence C. Woller Schneider (March 6, 1895-January 24, 1983).  According to a newspaper clipping in the album her parents worked at the Columbia Yarn Shop on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey. As a baby Schneider competed in various baby contests and participated in parades. In 1941, at the age of nineteen she married George Dayton Rauch (May 13, 1917-June 28, 2000) in Philadelphia. She later worked as a clerk for a retail florist.  Schneider died in 1997 at the age of seventy-five in Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .15 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1494
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Newspaper clippings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, 2023. Finding aid endcoded by Audrey Willius, intern, 2023.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Newspaper clippings
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Photograph album primarily documenting Helen Louise Schneider in beauty contests and parades in New Jersey. Included among the photographs are newspaper clippings relating to the events. In addition, there are photographs documenting places the Schneider family lived and visited, including Detroit, Florida (mainly St. Petersburg), Philadelphia, and Virginia. Many of these images include extended family, friends, and family pets.  There are certificates from schools Schneider attended and a 1933 class photograph from Longstreth School in Philadelphia. Loose photographs of Schneider at the age of ten and her wedding were tucked inside the front of the album. Most of the photographs were identified by her mother, Florence Schneider, and include her original drawings and illustrations on the pages of the album.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
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