- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Edna Hill, Miss Black Teenage America, 1973
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- African American entertainers
Special events
Travel - Location:
- U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Croix Island, 17.73563, -64.74795
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Edna Hill, the winner of the Miss Black Teenage America pageant, observes an employee working on a wristwatch. Caption on photo reads: Edna Hill, of Columbia, MD., and 1974 winner of "Hal Jackson's Miss Black Teenage America Pageant & U.S. Teen Revue" recently completed a tour of the U.S. Virgin Islands via Eastern Airlines at the invitation of the Virgin Islands Dept. of Commerce with accommodations at luxurious Bluebeard's Castle Hotel in St. Thomas. Edna was enthusiastically received by the islands' young people who proudly sent a Virgin Islands representative to compete at this year's national finals in New York City. Here, Edna visits a Standard Time Watch Factory in St. Croix which presented her with a gold wristwatch in recognition of her title and goodwill tour.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:05097
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu With the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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