Sujet

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team, 1967. Creator: A.C. Rehberger Company.

Légende

Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, is a public historically black university (HBCU). The debate trophy has a dark brown plastic base with metal shapes featured as decoration. The top of the trophy features a female statuette with wings holding a wreath above her head with both hands. The base has five staggered levels in varying shapes which taper off to form the podium where the metal figurine stands. There is a metal plaque on the level below the statuette which reads, [BAYLOR FORENSIC/JR WOMEN/ORATORY/'67]. In front of the plaque is a small metal eagle figure. A level below and to the right and left of the eagle are metal stars. The trophy base is hollow, with a manufacturer's mark on the hollow inside. The manufacturer's mark reads, [A. C. REHBERGER CO./TROPHIES/REH/CRAFT/AWARDS/CHICAGO 14, ILL.].

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A78_286

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,9Mo (889,3Ko) / 27,7cm x 38,8cm / 3271 x 4587 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black university education country society museum color prize location century debate award trophy African American African-American afro-american debating Sixties United States of America Colour laurel wreath 1960s 20th century heritage American America USA winged figure object united states cultural heritage Black History debating society Heritage Art laurel crown National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC HBCUs Historically Black Colleges and Universities metal plastic trophies (prizes) Baylor University Texas Southern University A.C. Rehberger Company Rehberger A.C. & Co. A.C. Rehberger Co.