Office Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Slaughter, Lenora, 1906-2001
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content: Lenora Slaughter Papers
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content: Lenora Slaughter Papers / Series 3: Miss America Pageant
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1996, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1227, Subseries 3.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consist of printed material including magazine articles, reports, state pageant directory, official press guide, and biographies of contestants documenting pageant and public relation activities -- most of which Slaughter organized. Of special interest are production manuals which document the process of creating the pageants. Moving images include Philco Television's promotion of the 1962 Miss American Pageant which was captured on 16mm black and white motion picture film and the 1995 videotape titled Miss America Beyond the Crown. Materials are arranged in chronological order.