She's a "Queen"

She's a "Queen"

Photograph

She's a "Queen"

September 17, 1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 9/16 × 6 3/4 in. (21.7 × 17.2 cm)
Paper: 9 1/16 × 7 1/8 in. (23 × 18.1 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0082.0425
Inscriptions Printed on applied label verso, C: CAUTION! \ WATCH RELEASE DATE!
Printed on applied label recto, C: WIDE WORLD \ A74182 PLEASE CREDIT \ (This picture is for use in papers of \ Sunday, Sept. 28 (NOTE RELEASE DATE) and \ thereafter, with Saul Pett's New York \ AP NEWSFEATURES story on "Cheesecake") \ SHE'S A "QUEEN" \ The "cheesecake" art has returned to \ normalcy. The wartime pin-up girl is \ now the queen of the orange festival \ or any festival you can name. One of the \ 1947 crop of "queens" is blonde Shirley \ Buchanan, above, whose smile announced \ the 1947 Los Angeles Boat Show sponsored \ by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of \ Commerce and produced earlier this year \ by a group of marine builders. \ 8320 11am 9/17/47 AJE FLS WABC155
Stamped on verso, C: NOTICE \ [illegible] \ WIDE WORLD PHOTO
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