Invitation for commencement at Fisk University

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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.

The booklet (2014.213.1.1) is bound with a thin string of leather threaded through three holes located at the center-left edge of the booklet. The images and text visible on the cover are created with embossed sections of the paper. An image dominates the top left quadrant of the cover; it is an embossed impression of a university building with a tall tower standing in front of a square of gold sky. In the center of the cover is large embossed text which reads [FISK]. To the bottom right of the letters is a circular symbol with trapezoidal panels attached to the left and right of the circle. In the circle is a depiction of a group of people; four men stand in a row while five women sit in a row in front of the standing men. Below this group are the words [JUBILEE SINGERS].

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