Bathing Beauties Visit Hospitalized Vets

Photograph of 1945 Miss America pageant contestants visiting wounded World War II veterans.  From original image caption: "Three wounded veterans (L to R) Irving Grablow, Salem, N.J., George Carras, Philadelphia, Pa., and Pvt. Harry Razos of New York, hospitalized at the Thomas England Gen...

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Collection:Philadelphia Record photograph morgue (#V07)
Date:1945-09-13
Call Number:V7: 1431
Folder Number:Folder 1431
Format: Electronic
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Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/9999
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Summary: Photograph of 1945 Miss America pageant contestants visiting wounded World War II veterans.  From original image caption: "Three wounded veterans (L to R) Irving Grablow, Salem, N.J., George Carras, Philadelphia, Pa., and Pvt. Harry Razos of New York, hospitalized at the Thomas England General Hospital at Atlantic City, N.J., are visited September 7th by three of the entries in the Bathing Beauties Contest to be held in Atlantic City Sept. 8.  The girls are (L to R): "Miss New Jersey," Matilda Agin, 147 Codwise Ave., New Brunswick, N.J.; "Miss Philadelphia," Gloria Naomi Bair, 1515 Green St., Philadelphia, Pa., and "Miss New York State," June Jenkins, 21 Eagle St., Elmont, N.Y."