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[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0629]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Press release and autobiographical information letter concerning Elaine Painton, Seiling, Okla., a candidate (and eventual winner) in the State FFA Sweetheart contest of 1960 at the State Fair. Photographer Joe Durham of Okeene submitted the release with publicity photos of Elaine that he had taken the week before, in Seiling, of Miss Painton."
Date: September 20, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0630]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Press release and autobiographical information letter concerning Elaine Painton, Seiling, Okla., a candidate (and eventual winner) in the State FFA Sweetheart contest of 1960 at the State Fair. Photographer Joe Durham of Okeene submitted the release with publicity photos of Elaine that he had taken the week before, in Seiling, of Miss Painton."
Date: September 20, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0627]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It was sprinkling, but the crowning of Oklahoma Future Farmers of America sweetheart for 1960 was carried out with enthusiasm Monday night. Joe Boyd Thompson, Mangum, State FFA president, crowns Elaine Painton, Seiling, then kissed her so completely that he knocked off the crown before it even got settled."
Date: September 27, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0626]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Sweetheart of the Future Farmers is Elaine Painton of Seiling. A senior, Miss Painton sang "The Twenty-Third Psalm" in the final competition."
Date: September 28, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0628]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It's a wonderful experience - one I'm sure any girl would enjoy," to be the state FFA sweetheart in Oklahoma. But Elaine Painton, 18, of Seiling, gave up her crown without regrets this week at the State Fair, as Marilyn Mobley of Cushing succeeded her."
Date: September 30, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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