Football program for Booker T. Washington High School: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A football program for a game between Muskogee's Manual Training High versus Tulsa's Booker T. Washington High School on Thanksgiving Day, 1930. The cover of the program is black ink on brown paper and has the game information and a sketch of a football player at center. The interior consists of several pages of black ink on white paper with drawings, the lineups, and fight songs. The back of the program has a history of the scores for the game.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 27, 1930
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Booker T. Washington High School, American, founded 1913
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 9 x 5 3/4 in. (22.9 x 14.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Football
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2011.60.11
• 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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