- Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976
- Title:
- Dorris Hayes, the Georgia Watermelon Queen, in bathing suit, on stairs in front of Eastern Air Lines plane, Candler Field, Atlanta, Georgia, July 29, 1956. The sign at the foot of the steps reads "Flight of the Ga. Watermelon Queen, Atlanta to Chicago, Eastern Air Lines." Two suited men on either side of Hayes are holding watermelons
- Creator:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Eastern Air Lines
Lane, Dan (Jack Daniel), 1913-1976 - Date of Original:
- 1956-07-29
- Subject:
- Beauty contests
Watermelon industry--Georgia
Beauty contestants
Airplanes
Watermelons
Candler Field (Atlanta, Ga.)
Eastern Air Lines - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Envelope description: Eastern Air Lines; Watermelon Queen at Airport. Description in 1956 Lane Brothers Assignment Book (p. 291): "Eastern Air Lines; [commissioned] by Jim Watkins; 3 photos of Dorris Hayes with watermelon; & prints; his port, 2 prints to W. comp." Dan Lane photographed the flight of the Watermelon Queen on a Sunday.
- Local Identifier:
- LBCE7-025b
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lane/id/1367
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lane:1367/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: LBCE7-025b, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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