The First Miss America, 1921

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Valued Exposure: On 7 September, 1921 Atlantic city hosted a beauty pageant called the Inter-City Beauty Contest where the winner wasn’t called Miss America, and she won a trophy called the Golden Mermaid, not a college scholarship. Second from left is Margaret Gorman, Miss Washington, DC, who re-entered the next year, but because there was another Miss Washington, DC in the running, she was dubbed Miss America

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