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Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School

1932

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A commencement announcement from Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, class of 1932. The announcement is on off white paper with a blue leather tie on the left side. On the front is an art deco relief design of a skyscraper rising from a cloud with “Tulsa” and “1932” at the bottom center. Embossed in gold at center is a circular “BWHS” emblem surrounded by laurel leaves. Written in graphite at the top center of the back is [Dorothy Mae Madden].

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Catalog reference: 2013.79.8

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