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Title
Evening Herald oratorical contest audience
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photo may be attributed to Mac.
Photo shows the huge crowd, which heard the finest speakers of Los Angeles high schools compete in The Evening Herald's sixth annual extemporaneous oratorical contest at the Polytechnic high school auditorium last night. This audience was larger and more enthusiastic than any which has attended a similar event for years, listening with rapt attention at the addresses on various phases of aviation and cheering speakers at close. Photograph dated December 8, 1928.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w ;16 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00095253
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102
CARL0005047806
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32734
Subject
Polytechnic High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Oratory--Competitions--California--Los Angeles
High school students--California--Los Angeles
Audiences--California--Los Angeles
Contests--California--Los Angeles
Extemporaneous speaking
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Los Angeles Evening Herald (Firm)
Time Period
1921-1930

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