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"Miss America 1939" crowns "Miss America 1930"
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"Miss America 1939" crowns "Miss America 1930"

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · September 8, 1940

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Patricia Donnelly of Detroit, Mich., "Miss America of 1939," does the honors in crowning her successor, lovely Frances Marie Burke of Philadelphia, Pa., "Miss America 1940" after the judges has unanimously awarded Miss Burke the title, during last night's finals here at the Atlantic City beauty pageant.

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