In the summer of 1915, in large part in order to advertise the existence of his newly-established Universal City Studios, Universal Moving Pictures President Carl Laemelle organized a cross-country procession that would culminate in a beauty pageant at Universal City, California (which, like Universal Studios, Laemelle had only founded in March of that year). Comprising "America's Most Beautiful Girls" from each of the forty-eight states, as well as studio representatives including Laemelle himself, the Universal Beauty Trip proceeded by automobile and rail from the East Coast to California, stopping at major cities along the way and at important tourist sites like the Grand Canyon
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, 1910s
The Davenport Daily Times - Feb 26, 1940
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 1940s
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Sports
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Human Marvels, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Twentieth Century
Regina Leader-Post - Feb 25, 1970
Regina Leader-Post - Feb 17, 1969
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 1960s
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, 1940s
Grenola Gazette - Oct 16, 1952
Pike County Dispatch - Oct 8, 1953
Taylor Daily Press - Oct 20, 1953
Wausau Daily Herald - Oct 12, 1953
Alabama Citizen - Oct 30, 1954
Salem News - Oct 17, 1955
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 1950s, Cars
Gallagher posing in front of the Farrah poster.
Detroit Free Press - Feb 2, 1977
Delta Democrat-Times - Jun 24, 1977
Calgary Herald - Oct 7, 1978
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Celebrities, 1970s
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Health, 1930s
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Geography and Maps, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists
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