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A commencement (graduation) announcement from Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, class of 1935. The school is named after the African-American education pioneer Booker T. Washington. Booklet printed on a single sheet of off-white paper, folded to create four pages. A list of graduates as well as a list of class officers, class motto: 'Not Evening But Dawn', class colours: orange and black; and class flower: white rose. On the cover, “1935” is embossed in gold over an imprint of a book and a quill pen. Printed in decorative font on the inside is the announcement is the text [The Graduating Class of / Nineteen hundred and thirty-five / Booker T. Washington High School / announces the / Commencement Exercises / Thursday evening, May thirtieth / at eight o'clock / Convention Hall].