- Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976
- Title:
- Dorris Hayes, the Georgia Watermelon Queen, in bathing suit, posed in front of stairsof Eastern Air Lines plane, Candler Field, Atlanta, Georgia, July 29, 1956. A flight attendant standing on the stairs is holding one end of a sign that reads "Flight of the Ga. Watermelon Queen, Atlanta to Chicago, Eastern Air Lines."
- Creator:
- Eastern Air Lines, inc.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lane, Dan (Jack Daniel), 1913-1976
Eastern Air Lines - 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:
- LBCE7-025a
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lane/id/1368
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/info/lane/1368/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: LBCE7-025a, 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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