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Pennant for Wilberforce University football

1940s - 1950s

Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio, 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 university pennant forest green in color with a yellow strip of felt at its base. There is yellow stylized text down the center of the pennant which reads [Wilberforce]; to the left of the text is the stylized image of two football players running over sparse clumps of grass. Attached to the base of the pennant of are two pairs of green felt ties. There is a strong vertical crease on the pennant between the "I" and the "L" in the line of text.

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Catalog reference: 2014.213.3.2

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