Oratorical Contest Medals
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Title
Oratorical Contest Medals
Description
The WCTU’s annual catalog featured images of medals that could be ordered and distributed to winners of oratorical contests. The medals came in silver, gold, grand gold, first diamond, and grand diamond. There was also a Loyal Temperance Legion series for children and a Matron’s series for older women. Medals ranged in price from $1.75 for silver to $60.00 for grand diamond, which is worth approximately $23 and $776 in 2020 dollars – surprisingly expensive prizes for locally sponsored contests. Accompanying the advertisements for medals was a list of medal contest literature, including pamphlets titled “The Value of Oratorical and Declamatory Medal Contests in the Public Schools” and “Why a Medal Contest Department?”
Source
National WCTU Catalog
Date
1921
Files
Collection
Reference
Oratorical Contest Medals, 1921
Cite As
“Oratorical Contest Medals,” Performing Temperance, accessed April 28, 2024, https://franceswillardhouseperformingtemperance.omeka.net/items/show/18.