Miss America Pageant 1953 photographed by Fred Hess & Son

Miss America Pageant 1953 photographed by Fred Hess & Son

From left to right: Miss Arkansas, Bonnie Diane Nicksic; Miss Kansas, Kay Ann Goforth; Miss New Jersey, Mary Henderson Parker; Miss America 1952, Colleen Kay Hutchins, from Utah; Miss Atlantic City; Miss Tennessee, Gloria Ruth Williams; Miss Delaware, Helen Blackwell; and Miss Oklahoma, Shirley Maurine Barbour.