Graduation Tassel
Graduation Tassel
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- Description
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This grey braided thread graduation tassel. It is in a paper envelope marked:
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graduation tassel
Senn H.S.
1945 -
This tassell was previously owned and used by William Russo, jazz composer, arranger, and founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. This was his Senn High School graduation tassel from 1945.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tassel
- Date made
- 1945
- user
- Russo, William
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- tassel: 1 in x 1 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 2.8575 cm x 29.845 cm
- envelope: 11/16 in x 5 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.74625 cm x 14.605 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- 2003.0162.04
- accession number
- 2003.0162
- catalog number
- 2003.0162.04
- Credit Line
- Gift of Camille Davis Russo Blinstrub, Barbara Russo Evans, Alexander W. Russo, and Condee Nast Russo
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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