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 1932. The announcement is on off white paper with a blue leather tie on the left side. On the front is an art deco relief design of a skyscraper rising from a cloud with “Tulsa” and “1932” at the bottom center. Embossed in gold at center is a circular “BWHS” emblem surrounded by laurel leaves. Written in graphite at the top center of the back is [Dorothy Mae Madden].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1932
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Booker T. Washington High School, American, founded 1913
• Type: announcements
• Medium: ink on paper, tissue paper, suede
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (14.6 x 11.4 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
• Object number: 2013.79.8
• 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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