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Title: Kay Rosenbaum is crowned during the 1971 Miss Gladstone Pageant
Description: Kay Rosenbaum, Miss Gladstone 1971, is being crowned. Farthest to the left in the photograph is the back of an audience member's head. The next person on stage is most likely a runner-up to Kay. From her right side, she laughs and claps as she holds a trophy in her right arm and wears a navy blue sash, earrings, white gloves that extend above the elbows, and a sky blue, sleeveless, evening gown with a lace bodice to the dropped waistline. To her left is the back of a man in a brown suit holding a bouquet of roses with greenery and a large red bow. To his left, a woman with her back to the photographer reaches up to place a crown on Kay's head. She is wearing a sky blue evening gown with a Watteau train with white lace adorning the edges. Kay is in the center, smiling with her eyes closed, she wears a white evening gown, white gloves that extend above the elbows, and a navy blue sash with gold lettering. To her left, a man stands with his left side to the photographer wearing a black shiny suit and holding a trophy. To his left stands another contestant, most likely a runner up, who is looking over her right shoulder at Kay. She is holding a bouquet of white flowers in her right arm. She wears a light pink, sleeveless evening gown and a navy blue sash with gold lettering on it. Farthest to the right in the photograph is the back of a photographer's head as he holds a camera with a flash extension to his eyes with his right hand.
Date Published: September 19, 1970
Collection: Patricia Stevens Collection

Title: Pamela Eldred, Miss America 1970, with Kay Rosenbaum, during the coronation of Miss Gladstone 1971
Description: Kay Rosenbaum, Miss Gladstone 1971, looks to her right, as she holds a bouquet in her right arm and a trophy in her left arm. She wears a crown, a navy blue sash with the words "Miss Gladstone" printed in gold, and a white, scoop-neck evening gown with silver netting for the collar, and white gloves that extend above the elbows. She stands to the right of Pam Eldred, Miss America 1970, who looks slightly to her left while wearing a crown, a corsage, and a sky blue, scoop-neck, evening gown with silver baubles around the collar and waistline and a pleated skirt, dangle earrings, and white gloves that extend above the elbows.
Date Published: September 19, 1970
Collection: Patricia Stevens Collection

Title: Kay Rosenbaum, Miss Gladstone 1971, and Pam Eldred, Miss America 1970 stand together during the Miss Gladstone 1971 Pageant
Description: Kay Rosenbaum, Miss Gladstone 1971, wearing a crown, a navy blue sash with gold lettering, a white evening gown with silver netting for a collar, and white gloves that extend above the elbows, holding a bouquet of red roses and greenery in her right arm and a trophy in her left arm, stand to the right of Pamela Eldred, Miss America 1970, who wears a crown, silver dangle earrings, a corsage, a sky blue, scoop-neck, evening gown with silver baubles around the collar and waistline and a pleated skirt, and white gloves that extend above the elbows.
Date Published: September 19, 1970
Collection: Patricia Stevens Collection

Title: Pamela Eldred, Miss America 1970, listens during the 1971 Miss Gladstone Pageant
Description: Miss America 1970, Pam Eldred, looks to her right and listens to someone holding a microphone of which only the hand and microphone are visible on the left side of the photograph. She wears a crown, a corsage, and a sky blue, scoop-neck, evening gown with silver baubles around the collar and waistline and a pleated skirt, silver dangle earrings, and white gloves that extend above the elbows.
Date Published: September 19, 1970
Collection: Patricia Stevens Collection

Title: Kay Rosenbaum stands victorious during the Miss Gladstone 1971 Pageant
Description: Kay Rosenbaum, Miss Gladstone 1971, stands victorious on stage wearing her crown, navy blue sash with gold lettering, a white evening gown with silver netting collar, and holding a trophy on her right arm and a bouquet of red roses and greenery with a large red bow on her left arm.
Date Published: September 19, 1970
Collection: Patricia Stevens Collection

Title: Big Bill Morganfield at the Gladstone Blues Festival
Description: Big Bill Morganfield, one of the national acts to perform at the Gladstone Blues Festival, wearing a fedora, grins slightly to his right as he holds an electric guitar tight.
Date Published: June 10, 2006
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection