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[MISS AMERICA PAGEANT]. The Illustrated Sun. Vol. III, No. 101. Philadelphia, September 10, 1927. 24 large 4to pages on folded folio sheets. Each page approximately 410 x 280 mm. Pages toned, brittle, edgeworn, numerous marginal tears, chips, left margins worn, chipped (most likely excised from a book). On pp. 1, 3, and 13 are articles with accompanying photos of the 1927 Miss America Pageant. On p. 1 is a full-page picture of Lois Eleanor Delander (1911-1985), who was crowned Miss America. She was 17 years old at the time, and was the first Miss Illinois. The 1927 Miss America Pageant, held in Atlantic City, was the sixth such pageant; the next Miss America Pageant would not be held again until 1933.