Bessie Bowen Payne's diploma from St. Mary's Female Seminary
Entry/Object ID
2018.003.0069
Scope and Content
1 sheet ; 15 3/4"h x 19 5/8"w
The certificate is on heavy paper that is trying to suggest parchment.
In a rounded arch across the top "St. Mary's Female Seminary" in heavy black Gothic script. The initial letter of each word was white with black cross hatching and backed with dark gray curlicues.
A central 2" circle showed a hand holding a flaming torch. The circle was flanked by a winged wheel on each side.
Directly under that "St. Mary's City, MD. This Diploma is presented to"
Barely visible in faded ink "Bessie Bowen Payne"
"in token of her having honorably completed the course of Study and Practice laid down for the Graduates of St. Mary's Female Seminary.
Given by the authority of this Institution this 10th day of June 1909
[Signed] L. ? Maddox Price Josephine S. Sheffrey, A. B.
Mary? Miles? [illegible]
? Hartzell, A.B."
There was an empty circle right in the center that probably had a seal in it
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Text on verso: none