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International commercial schools contest award recipients
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E.W. Harrison, teacher in the school received the award from Col. Robert Isham Randolph. To the right is Violet Molner, Cleveland, who won first place in the amateur shorthand event for high schools.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Winner in the International Schools contest first place amateur bookkeeping for business
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Dennis O' Shea, in glasses, pie-eating champion of the 1934 World's Fair
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Third, second, and first place winners of the 1934 pie-eating contest.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Congressman Frank Annunzio visits the city garden contest best garden winner on Northwest side
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Congressman Frank Annunzio (right) visits the city garden content best garden winner (unidentified) on Northwest side
Date:
1975-06-15
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
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Public access
West Tech high school, Cleveland, Ohio, wins the Stowell cup for the second year for having the highest dictating machine score
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Zeta Newell, of Oak Park, IL., a winner of the Century of Progress Opera Contest, sings in front of the microphone
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Best photo contest winner Rolf A. Maren
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Popularity queen receiving the certificate of her popularity
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Committee of music authorities who selected the winners in the Midway Song contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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One of three finalists in a national charm smile contest sits in an old colonial stock in Colonial Village
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Contestants trying for an opportunity to win a contract with the opera in the Grand Opera contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
1933 Texas High School Typewriting Champion
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Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Participants swimming in the National Athletic Union outdoor title racing carnival held at the Century of Progress Lagoon.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Swimmers
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Search for the Most Irresistible Smile in America
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The winners of a 4H Club canning contest
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Frances Krause, 21 years old, from Lapeer, Michigan, is Michigan's first Potato Queen, a title which she won at the Lapeer County Fair on September 27th from a field of 90 contestants. Merle Ruah, 14 years old, is the winner of the canning contest at the same Fair.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Don McNeill at the radio auditions contest
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Like this?' Don McNeill, famous NBC announcer, takes the mike and the control headphones at the World's Fair radio auditions contest and talks to himself. He doesn't seem to think much of his own efforts. McNeill, who takes over the position of master of ceremonies in the new Pontiac broadcast scheduled from WEAF, New York next month, was the guest star at the audition contest. He also acted as one of the judges and turned out to be one of the toughest critics that have yet acted in that capacity.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Louise Grau holding homing pigeon
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Winners in the Grand Opera Contest being congratulated by the judges of the contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Tom Blanchard, famous radio whistler, placed first in a whistling contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Winner in the International commercial schools contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Firestone Tire exhibit employee receives prize for her winning guess
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Victor Clement and Miss Daisy Fisher, two of the entrants in the Grand Opera Contest
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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The winners of the Century of Progress Opera Contest.
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Zeta Newell, from Oak Park, IL., is on the left, and Mr. Frank Jakavicius, of Chicago, is to her right. The Opera contest was held at the Lagoon Theater, and the winners received a contract with the Opera company which opened in Chicago later that year.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Winners in the International Commercial Schools contest in bookkeeping for business college and high schools novices
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
National Square Dance Contest champions
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The grand champions of the square dance. Sylvia Riley, 16, 3342 Oketo Avenue and Steve Horvath, 18, 3311 Pontiac Avenue were adjudged the best team of two in the National Square Dance Contest finals at the Lagoon Theater at the Century of Progress, Sunday. Both, in addition to winning the individual prize, were members of the team of eight that captured second place in that division. The contest, which has been running for a week, was for $1500 in cash in merchandise prizes. It was sponsored by the Reliance Manufacturing Company.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Henry Sheldon christens 'A Century of Progress Ranger'
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Various swimming and diving champions of the Chicago public parks
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
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