Reader contributions to the Femulate Coffee Break! fund help cover the annual Flickr Pro fee that keeps alive a remarkable archive: more than 4,500 photos of womanless events collected by Starla Trimm from online high school yearbooks.
The collection spans nearly a century — from 1929 to the present — and features mostly womanless beauty pageants, Halloween festivities, gender-bender days, and stage productions. It’s an unexpectedly fascinating glimpse into a long-running tradition of school humor, performance, and social role reversal.
The photos are organized alphabetically into 26 albums by school name — A through Z (well, technically A through Y, since there’s no X album). There’s also an “Unknown Location” folder for the handful of images whose origins remain a mystery.
As you might expect with a collection this large, there are a few duplicate images scattered throughout the archive, and I’m slowly weeding those out over time.
Anyway, without further ado, click here to access the Yearbook albums.
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| Lovely Harry Cannon won the Miss Cutie Pie contest in 1970 at Southside High School in Florence, South Carolina. |
Very deserving win for Harry Cannon as Miss Cutie Pie. I'm thinking it was not his first time dressing pretty!
ReplyDeleteEven if it was the first, I doubt it was the last!
DeleteIs there a way to know which pictures were added recently? I hate having to go through all of them to find new ones.
ReplyDeleteThe latest uploads appear as the last images in each album.
DeleteAm I mistaken? I went to find more in the Southside HS Miss Cutie Pie contest in the yearbook albums, under 'S' and page 3 but could not see lovely Harry there and neither it seems could google lens which just found the same but b&w entry in Femulate May 28, 2020. Is the lovely Harry not in Starla's collection? Love Linda
ReplyDeleteHarry's photo slipped through the cracks. So I just uploaded it to the S album and it now appears at the end of the S album.
DeleteAt first glance I thought that was a girl. Looked closer and noticed some subtle male features. Definitely not the first or last time.
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