Chromogenic print of a Booker T. Washington High School reunion at Mayo Hotel
date: label: Date
content: 1976
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
notes: label: Description
content: A color photograph of women and men who were students at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa in the 1920s, the so-called "Class of the 20s." There are forty-one (41) women and eleven (11) men and women in the photograph, arranged in three (3) rows. The photograph was taken inside a large hall or ballroom in the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa. The women are wearing dresses, the men are wearing suits, and many members of the group are wearing name tags. The room has full-length curtains over three (3) windows and a matching valence in a boldly-patterned maroon and cream print, with olive green tassel trim along the edge of the valence. The wall-to-wall carpet has a base color of olive green with a repeating maroon geometric pattern.
place: label: Place depicted
content: The Mayo Hotel, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Communities
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, Tulsa, Oklahoma
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.75.135
objectType: label: Type
content: photographs
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)