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The Miss America Organization archive includes everything from program books and photos to films, jeweled crowns, trophies, and oil paintings of winners. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Students at Rowan University are going through a treasure chest of American history that includes jeweled crowns, velvet capes, and a cookbook. It’s 100 years of artifacts from the Miss America Organization.
Students are scanning pictures and other documents in addition to taking pictures of the crowns, trophies, and a Waterford scepter carried by winners for what will become the cornerstone of the new Rowan Digital Collections.
The crowns worn by Miss America winners have changed styles over the years. A large crown from one of the earliest pageants sits beside a smaller, more recent model. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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The Miss America Pageant archive includes everything from program books and photos to films, jeweled crowns, trophies, and oil paintings of winners.
Students at Rowan University are going through a treasure chest of American history that includes jeweled crowns, velvet capes, and a cookbook. It’s 100 years of artifacts from the Miss America Organization.
Students are scanning pictures and other documents in addition to taking pictures of the crowns, trophies, and a Waterford scepter carried by winners for what will become the cornerstone of the new Rowan Digital Collections.
“This is such a great collection for American cultural … and popular history,” said Katherine Turner, a history professor at Rowan who is the project manager for the job.
This 1921 photo of Cassville, Wisconsin, shows an automobile repair shop and a shoe store.
The radio was everything Bettmann/Getty Images
In 1919, after World War I, the U.S. government lifted a ban on civilian radio ownership and transmission, and it wasn t long before commercial radio became a favorite source of entertainment.
The first baseball game to be broadcast on the radio was one between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies on August 5, 1921. Gould the Light Man Getty Images
And with the increasing popularity of radio, the personal electronics industry boomed. This store in Stockton, California, was billed as the only real radio store in San Joaquin Valley.
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