Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette: Museum Object and Cultural History
Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette: Date: 1920. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Roger Williams University, American, 1866 - 1929.
The object in the museum catalogue
A piece of cardboard with a "compliments of" note on it. Losses to the object make it difficult to determine what its function is or was. The text was handwritten in pencil and reads [Compliments / of / Your Boys / Roger Williams Univ. / Quartette / 1920 / Willie Green / Gary / [illegible] Williams / [cut off]].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1920
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Roger Williams University, American, 1866 - 1929
- Type: notes
- Medium: ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (21.3 x 14 cm)
- Place depicted: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Correspondence
- Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2011.36.81
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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