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John Cofield’s Photo of the Week: “Miss America 1960”

John Cofield June 26, 2023 1 minute read

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Katherine Cole Taylor, Ole Miss Associated Student Body President Dan Jordan, and Martha Lovelace welcome newly crowned Miss America 1960, Lynda Lee Mead, home from Atlantic City to Oxford.

Photograph © Ed Meek Collection

John Cofield

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John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. "Colonel" Cofield, was William Faulkner's personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford's pictorial history.

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