Samuel B. Clark, winner of state spelling contest, Los Angeles, 1935

Description: This photograph appears with the article, “He Knows How to Spell It: HARD WORDS MADE EASY Speller Says He Studied Em in Spare Time and Learns Meanings,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 1935: 9.
Photograph of Samuel B. Clark studying spelling words. He is wearing a suit and tie while he sits at a desk with a map of Africa behind him.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Samuel B. Clark of Los Angeles is the new adult State spelling Champion. He won the title at the State Fair in Sacramento by beating a field of seventy-five contestants in a written quiz on multi-syllabled words.
Text from negative sleeve: 2171—Samuel B. Clark, Spelling Champion 9/16/35. [Stamped:] SEP 19 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Samuel B. Clark 9/16/35.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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