USC embroidered graduation banner
Content Description
A wearable banner with embroidered text and an image of a young woman in academic regalia. The embroidered figure is waving a USC flag with surrounding cardinal red text: "Here's to the college whose colors we wear." The banner has two straps attached made from braided red fabric, presumably for the graduate to wear the banner on their back. The banner's creator and exact creation date is unknown, but the donor supplied an approximate date of 1910s.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1910s
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A wearable banner with embroidered text and an image of a young woman in academic regalia. The embroidered figure is waving a USC flag with surrounding cardinal red text: "Here's to the college whose colors we wear." The banner has two straps attached made from braided red fabric, presumably for the graduate to wear the banner on their back. The banner's creator and exact creation date is unknown, but the donor supplied an approximate date of 1910s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Sophie O'Neill, February 25, 2020
Physical Description
An embroidered banner measuring approximately 19 x 21 inches.
Subject
- University of Southern California -- Archives (Organization)
- Title
- USC embroidered graduation banner
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2020 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu