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Women and Chiropractic: Posture Queens

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Posture Queen

Peggy Jackson, Alabama posture queen in 1960.

Articles about Posture Queens

Roger H. Hynes, D.C., “The Most Beautiful Spines in America: The History of the Posture Queens”, Chiropractic History, Winter 2002, 22(2): 65-71.
P. Reginald Hug, D.C., “Posture Queen Contests in Alabama,” Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, 2008:67-80.
“Posture Week Plans”, ICA Review, 1950, 4(10): p7
“Posture Contests are Big Business”, Digest of Chiropractic Economics, 1958-1959, 1: p.4-5
Ronald O. Masters, “The Story of Posture Queens and the Spinalyzer”, Digest of Chiropractic Economics, 1989, March/April: p132

Photographs

Miss Chiropractic, World Queen of Posture, 1962
Posture Queen winner with David Palmer, 1967
Miss Washington--Marsha Maye Covey, 1969
Alabama posture queens, 1960s

Posture Queen photographs are available for viewing in the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room, L103.

Additional photographs are available as part of the Wallace Kirland/Time collection.

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