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Oratorical Contest Medals, 1921

The WCTU’s annual catalog featured images of medals that could be ordered and distributed to winners of oratorical contests. The medals came in…

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Oratorical Prize Medals display

These medals were donated to the Archives by members of the WCTU. Many were won during the 1890s. They represent contests for all age groups and were…

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Advertisement for Elocution Schools

Enclosed in all of the medal contest reciters were advertisements for elocution schools in the Chicago area. The Columbia College of Expression and…

Tags: chicago, Columbia college, drama, elocution, Illinois, Mary blood, oratory, public speaking, temperance, theater, woman's christian temperance union

Elocution Lessons By Mail

Enclosed in all of the medal contest reciters were advertisements for correspondence courses in elocution taught by women from small towns in…

Tags: advertisement, correspondence course, elocution, Illinois, nineteenth century, oratory, temperance, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's history

Professional Women Lecturers

Linnie Carl of Portland, Oregon served as the Field Secretary of the Young People’s Branch and as a National Lecturer for the WCTU. Carl was a…

Tags: drama, elocution, lecturer, Linnie Carl, lyceum, oratory, Oregon, public speaking, temperance, theater, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's history

Total Abstinence Teaching in Recitation and Story, National WCTU Publishing House

Billed as “stories for the adult to tell and the child to recite,” these selections were approved for the WCTU’s junior speech contests, which were…

Tags: children, contest, elocution, oratory, recitation, story, storytelling, temperance, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Jane Good, The Uncrowned Queen, Northwestern School of Speech, 1939

The Uncrowned Queen was advertised to Woman’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Associations, churches, “Business and Professional Women’s clubs” and other groups…

Tags: children, creative drama, drama, elocution, Frances Willard, monologue, northwestern university, solo performance, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union