Buck Jones: Museum Object and Cultural History
Buck Jones: date made: ca 1935. date made: ca 1930s. depicted (sitter): Jones, Buck.
The object in the museum catalogue
Actor Buck Jones, born Charles Frederick Gebhart, was a US Army veteran and real-life cowboy before going to Hollywood. First appearing in movies as stuntman, he quickly became a feature performer and appeared in hundreds of movies, almost all Western themed. The film star's youthful fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers, was estimated to include over a million members, and Jones hawked a number of products such as cereal and toy guns.
The prolific entertainer died in a fire at Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in 1942.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1935
- date made: ca 1930s
- depicted (sitter): Jones, Buck
- Object Name: Photograph
- Other Terms: Photograph; Cut-Out
- Physical Description: cardboard (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 7 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 17.145 cm
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- Subject: Cowboy
- ID Number: 1980.0073.01
- accession number: 1980.0073
- catalog number: 1980.0073.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Gloria A. Rupp
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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