- On View
- Segregation Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Created by
- Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s
- Subject of
- Brown, Lucille, American, 1892 - 1960
- Owned by
- Brown, Lucille, American, 1892 - 1960
- Date
- 1915-1953
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 1 3/4 x 16 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (4.4 x 41 x 3.5 cm)
- Description
- This is a canister in which a Poro enrollment certificate was mailed to its recipient. The brown paper tube is addressed to Lucille Brown in Weir, Mississippi. There are two different colored, cancelled stamps on the tube, along the right side of the address label. The label wraps around the tube in the center. Text on the tube reads "Return in ten days to/ "Poro" College Company/ Saint Louis, MO/ Register No. 146453/ Lucille Brown No # 0560/ P.O.Box 815/ Weir, Miss./ [illegible]." The tube is open at both ends.
- Place used
- Weir, Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Type
- canisters
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.170.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




