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Winners in National Spelling Bee received by President Coolidge. School children from all over the country who competed in the fourth annual National Spelling Bee held in Washington, were received by President Coolidge at the White House today. The winners are shown in the center of the group with the President. Reading left to right: Bessie Doig of Detroit, winner of the third award of $200; President Coolidge; Betty Robinson of South Bend, Indiana, the winner of the first prize of $1,000; and Pauline Gray, representing Akron, Ohio, winner of the second prize of $500. photo by Harris & Ewing, May 23, 1927
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#National Spelling Bee#Spelling Bee#winners#Bessie Doig#President Coolidge#Calvin Coolidge#Betty Robinson#Pauline Gray#May 23#1927#1920s#20s#Harris & Ewing#Washington DC#The White HouseInfo
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- May 23, 2013 (a Thursday)
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- 9:56:57 (3 weeks ago)
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1927 monochrome print ad for Naughty But Nice starring Colleen Moore
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- May 17, 2013 (a Friday)
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- 1:07:28 (1 month ago)
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Title card for The Sea Tiger (1927). Sold here.
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- May 16, 2013 (a Thursday)
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- 10:00:07 (1 month ago)
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MOTHERS!!!!!!!!!!
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- May 12, 2013 (a Sunday)
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- 12:12:28 (1 month ago)
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Washington youngsters surprise Mrs Coolidge with May Day basket of flowers. […] the First Lady of the land opened the door of […] morning she found a May Basket of flowers ha[…] nob. The basket, filled with daisies, was pu[…] little Washington children to tell Mrs Coolidge […] is Child Health Day.” The daisies represen[…] “Better Health for Children” movement. The […]ph are Nan Norton, Elizabeth Ann Taylor and […] Cooley, April 30, 1927
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#Grace Coolidge#First Lady#May Day#flowers#kids#children#bobbed hair#April 30#1927#1920s#20s#Washington DC#daisies#Nan Norton#Elizabeth Ann Taylor#basketInfo
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- Apr 30, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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- 8:26:47 (1 month ago)
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if only candies still cost 5¢, and the men who sold them wore white coats and bowties, and the people who bought em wore the Sunday best Monday thru Saturday
IF ONLY!!!
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#Curtiss Candies#candy#Baby Ruth#ad#advertisement#1927#Peter Pan#Ostrich Egg#Milk Nut Loaf#Cocoanut Grove#5¢#art#IllustrationInfo
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- Apr 2, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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- 5:18:16 (2 months ago)
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Colleen Moore on the March 1927 cover of Picture-Play
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- Mar 31, 2013 (a Sunday)
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- 10:10:47 (2 months ago)
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stoop troop
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- Mar 24, 2013 (a Sunday)
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- 12:39:08 (2 months ago)
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flower children Ruth Jardine & her classmates at an Amaryllis show, March 21, 1927
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- Mar 21, 2013 (a Thursday)
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- 12:48:00 (3 months ago)
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Brownville School, Nemaha County, Nebraska, 1927-1930
(back row L-R) Ronnie Stiers, Randol V. Henry, Mary Goff, Bill Kelley, Emmet Goff, Josie Majors, John Haith, Ella Mae Williams, Lawrence Young, Marshall Burwell, Robert Owings
(3rd row L-R). Richard Tanner, Robert Betts, Lowell Furnas, Bob Kelley, Dallas Teague, Vivien Moore, Audry Jeffries, Eileen Stiers, Ila Mae Burwell, Nina Craig
(2nd row L-R) Jimmy Trotter, Raymond (Lefty) Lee, Ralph Eugene Den, George (Butch) Majors, Alfred Jeffries, Ernest Pebley, Louis Jeffries, Marion Gillard, Marvin Thomas, George Edmondson
(front row L-R). Viola Whitaker, Ruth Humphery, Irma Burwell, Rosalie Roberts, Lydia Mae Roberts, Dorothy Russell, Aurolyn Thomas, Donna Mae Newton, Violet Whitaker, Lucille Pebley. Teacher Miss Stovall
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- Mar 18, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 1:09:33 (3 months ago)
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stereotypes never looked so hot, from the Albert Arthur Allen series Night in a Harem, 1927
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- Mar 11, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 12:35:56 (3 months ago)
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Margaret Livingston in Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans, 1927
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#Margaret Livingston#Sunrise#Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans#1927#1920s#20s#gif#smoking#candle#combingInfo
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- Mar 4, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 2:47:45 (3 months ago)
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Earl Carroll Vanities, 1927 - clockwise from upper left - Nelda Kinkaid, Genie Fursa, Beryl Wallace, Marion O’Day, June Brewster, Helen Arlen, Violet Arnold, Constance Trevor
art by Haskell Coffin
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#Haskell Coffin#1927#1920s#20s#Nelda Kinkaid#Genie Fursa#Beryl Wallace#Earl Carroll Vanities#Marion O'Day#June Brewster#Helen Arlen#Violet Arnold#Constance TrevorInfo
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- Feb 28, 2013 (a Thursday)
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- 9:28:26 (3 months ago)
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Claudette Colbert & Norman Foster in the 1927 Broadway play The Barker
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- Feb 25, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 11:15:16 (3 months ago)
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we salute you Wings, winner of The Most Outstanding Picture at the very 1st Academy Awards
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- Feb 24, 2013 (a Sunday)
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- 2:22:33 (3 months ago)
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