Invitation and ticket reading, "You are cordially invited to hear an address by Booker T. Washington." On "Thursday Evening, January 8, at 8 o' clock / Mechanics Pavilion." San Francisco: N.p, 1903. A ticket from Washington's January 1903 visit to San Francisco and Oakland. The ticket notes that "Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz will preside and president Benj. Ide Wheeler will make introductory remarks / The Knickerbocker Quartet will sing." Wheeler (1854-1927) was a professor of Greek and comparative philology and Presiden of the University of California from 1899 to 1919. The ticket is completed in manuscript noting that the ticket bearer is a guest of "C.S. Nash, Member Calif. Min. Union." The illustrated front-page article on the January 9, 1903 issue of the San Francisco Call reported on Washington's arrival and address with the journalist noting that: "Mr. Washington was received with applause so generous and so lasting that he was kept bowing for several minutes before he could commence his address." Washington spoke on his theories of racial improvement and the growth of Tuskegee University. The Call reports that he "received a royal welcome from members of the university community" at Stanford when he spoke there the morning of the 9th and also noting that he "will address colored people," suggesting that many of his addresses were to majority or exclusively white audiences. Condition: Old vertical crease at center.
Invitation and ticket reading, "You are cordially invited to hear an address by Booker T. Washington." On "Thursday Evening, January 8, at 8 o' clock / Mechanics Pavilion." San Francisco: N.p, 1903. A ticket from Washington's January 1903 visit to San Francisco and Oakland. The ticket notes that "Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz will preside and president Benj. Ide Wheeler will make introductory remarks / The Knickerbocker Quartet will sing." Wheeler (1854-1927) was a professor of Greek and comparative philology and Presiden of the University of California from 1899 to 1919. The ticket is completed in manuscript noting that the ticket bearer is a guest of "C.S. Nash, Member Calif. Min. Union." The illustrated front-page article on the January 9, 1903 issue of the San Francisco Call reported on Washington's arrival and address with the journalist noting that: "Mr. Washington was received with applause so generous and so lasting that he was kept bowing for several minutes before he could commence his address." Washington spoke on his theories of racial improvement and the growth of Tuskegee University. The Call reports that he "received a royal welcome from members of the university community" at Stanford when he spoke there the morning of the 9th and also noting that he "will address colored people," suggesting that many of his addresses were to majority or exclusively white audiences. Condition: Old vertical crease at center.
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