Ticket for Prospect Junior High School graduation: Museum Object and Cultural History
Ticket for Prospect Junior High School graduation: Date: June 27, 1960. Photograph by: Unidentified. Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
A Prospect Junior High School graduation admissions ticket. The ticket is made of off-white colored paper with type printed in black ink. The type reads: [The Graduation Class / of / June, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty / Prospect Jr. High School / Requests The Honor Of Your Presence / At Its / Graduation Exercises / Monday Morning, June the Twenty-Seventh / At The R.K.O. Franklin Theater / At Nine O'Clock / Please Present This Card For Admission / 161st Street And Prospect Avenue]. The back of the admissions ticket has a handwritten inscription that say [Parents Association / 2].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: June 27, 1960
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
- Type: admission tickets
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 3 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (8.7 × 14 cm)
- Place depicted: Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Social life and customs
- Topic: Youth
- Object number: 2013.46.29.134
- 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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