Beaver Beauties photographs
Content Description
Four 10 x 12-inch black-and-white photos of four female students who were part of a group of nine female students picked by the student body for the Beaver Beauties contest.
Dates
- Creation: 1946-1947
Historical Note
From the 1947 yearbook, The Log, p. 52: Beaver Log of 1947 acquired the services of Ronald "Dutch" Reagan, movie star and former Iowan, to judge its first annual Beaver Beauty contest. The "Beaver Beauties" is a new section added by the Log of '47, the first Buena Vista College yearbook in over a deade.
The candidates were chosen by the student body, with Reagan making the final selections.
One of the contestants, LoRaine Devereux Carlson, wrote a letter to a staff person at BV in 1984 remembering this contest. See SC-0024.
Full Extent
1.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arrangement alphabetically by contestants' surnames when they were students.
Subject
- Reagan, Ronald (Person)
- Buena Vista College -- Beaver Beauties (Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Buena Vista University Archives Repository