Mailing tube addressed to Lucille Brown: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a canister in which a Poro enrollment certificate was mailed to its recipient. The brown paper tube is addressed to Lucille Brown in Weir, Mississippi. There are two different colored, cancelled stamps on the tube, along the right side of the address label. The label wraps around the tube in the center. Text on the tube reads "Return in ten days to/ "Poro" College Company/ Saint Louis, MO/ Register No. 146453/ Lucille Brown No # 0560/ P.O.Box 815/ Weir, Miss./ [illegible]." The tube is open at both ends.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1915-1953
• Created by: Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s
• Subject of: Lucille Brown, American, 1892 - 1960
• Owned by: Lucille Brown, American, 1892 - 1960
• Type: canisters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: 1 3/4 x 16 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (4.4 x 41 x 3.5 cm)
• Place used: Weir, Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Beauty salons (Beauty shops)
• Topic: Beauty schools
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Cosmetics
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2011.170.3
• 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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