Beauty Pageant Participants Posing Together

09 Sep 1922, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — Original caption: Atlantic City: Mary Dague as “Miss Wheeling,” Dorothy Haupt as “Miss Easton,” Helen Lynch as “Miss Fall River,” Ellen E. Sherr as “Miss Allentown,” Paula E. Spoettle as “Miss Bridgeport,” and Miss Margaret Gorman as “Miss America”–in bathing suits. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS