Elsa Mantilla, seated in the audience, watches contestants in evening gowns walk down the runway.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

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01/01/1994

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