Pennant for Wilberforce University: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pennant for Wilberforce University: Date: after 1856. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856.
The object in the museum catalogue
A university pennant olive green in color with a strip of gold felt trim at its base. There is gold lettering in calligraphic script down the center of the pennant. The text reads [Wilberforce].The back of the pennant has no lettering. There is a small tear at the bottom PL of the pennant. The second "r" is ripping slightly at its center and the pennant is deeply creased down the center of the first "e." The pennant is slightly browned with dirt and age.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1856
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856
- Type: pennants
- Medium: felt with thread and printing ink
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/2 × 28 in. (26.7 × 71.1 cm)
- Place depicted: Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Education
- Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Object number: 2014.213.3.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Gates Moresi family
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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