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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2615]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In 1926, a Tulsa beauty, Norma Smallwood, went to Atlantic City as Miss Okalhoma and came home as Miss America. That same year the daughter of millionaire oilman Harry Sinclair was given a 1926 Rolls Royce by her doting father. Forty years later another Oklahoma girl, Jayne Jayroe, of Laverne, went to Atlantic City as Miss Oklahoma and became Miss America. At the same time, Oklahoma City's Mayor Shirk acquired Miss S… more
Date: September 12, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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