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| Title | Cake-eating contest at Cornucopia Festival, Kent, July 13, 1956 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1956 |
| Caption | Kent, Washington's second annual Community Festival opened on Friday, July 13, 1956, and ran for three days. During the first day, area youngsters entered cake-eating contests and boys competed to catch a greased pig or climb a slippery pole. The festival also featured a parade, the crowning of a queen, livestock judging and a farm show.
In this photo of the girls' cake-eating contest, taken at the 1956 Kent Community Festival, one girl licks cake off of the face of another girl as other children look on in delight. The photographer identified three of the girls as Mary Lou Linnell, Susan Alf and Sally Johnson but did not specify which was which. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Mary Lou Linnell, Susan Alf, Sally Johnson. Kent 7-13-56.
Handwritten on sleeve: KENT, Wash., Cornucopia festival.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 16, 1956. |
| Subjects | Contests--Washington (State)--Kent; Cakes--Washington (State)--Kent; Festivals--Washington (State)--Kent; Children--Washington (State)--Kent |
| Personal Names | Linnell, Mary Lou
Alf, Susan
Johnson, Sally |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Kent |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.4711.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
