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Title: Evening Herald oratorical contestant, Knauft
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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.
Pictured is Jack Adams Knauft, 15, a Los Angeles High School student and budding young journalist who will compete in The Evening Herald's extemporaneous oratorical contest, hoping to win the coveted silver trophy. In addition to being the editor and publisher of the Nifty News, a six column, typewritten, four-page newspaper, Knauft is also the reportorial staff, artist, cartoonist, comic strip creator, out of town correspondent, columnist, printer, delivery boy and business manager. Photograph dated December 7, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w ;28 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095222
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102
CARL0005047775
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32699
Subject: Oratory--Competitions--California--Los Angeles
Journalism, High school--California--Los Angeles
High school students--California--Los Angeles
Contests--California--Los Angeles
Extemporaneous speaking
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald (Firm)
Time Period: 1921-1930

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