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Commencement announcement for Booker T. Washington High School

1940

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

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Source catalog description

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 1940. The announcement is printed on a single sheet of off-white paper, folded to create four pages. An imprinted design on the front reads [1940] with a rolled diploma across the front reading [SENIOR CLASS]. Printed in black ink in the interior is the text [The Senior Class / of / Booker T. Washington High School / announces the / Commencement Exercises / Thursday evening, May thirtieth / at eight o'clock / Convention Hall / Tulsa, Oklahoma]. There is no printing on the back page.

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Catalog reference: 2013.79.9

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