Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A commencement announcement from Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, class of 1935, printed on a single sheet of off-white paper, folded to create four pages. On the cover, “1935” is embossed in gold over an imprint of a book and a quill pen. Printed in decorative font on the inside is the announcement is the text [The Graduating Class of / Nineteen hundred and thirty-five / Booker T. Washington High School / announces the / Commencement Exercises / Thursday evening, May thirtieth / at eight o'clock / Convention Hall]. A list of graduates is printed on the back side as well as a list of class officers, class motto, class colors and class flower.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1935
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Booker T. Washington High School, American, founded 1913
• Type: announcements
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 1/2 x 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Social life and customs
• Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
• Object number: 2013.79.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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