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 1940. The announcement is printed on a single sheet of off-white paper, folded to create four pages. An imprinted design on the front reads [1940] with a rolled diploma across the front reading [SENIOR CLASS]. Printed in black ink in the interior is the text [The Senior Class / of / Booker T. Washington High School / announces the / Commencement Exercises / Thursday evening, May thirtieth / at eight o'clock / Convention Hall / Tulsa, Oklahoma]. There is no printing on the back page.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940
• Subject of: Unidentified
• Subject of: Booker T. Washington High School, American, founded 1913
• Type: invitations
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 1/8 in. (14 x 10.8 x 0.3 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: 2013.79.9
• 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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