CCB Band Hat: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This hat was made by Baker & McKenney in New York, New York, about 1880. It is a band hat made of beaver skin with a separate crest attached at top of hat. There is a gold-tone braid at the front of the hat connected by two gold-tone buttons embossed with brass instruments. The gold-tone medallion on the front of the hat is embossed with musical instruments and the letters "CCB." The edge of the hat is covered with grosgrain ribbon. The interior of the hat is lined with burgundy fabric and green fabric on the underside of the front and the back. There is a label inside the hat:

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: ca 1880
• Object Name: hat
• Physical Description: beaver skin (overall material)
• Physical Description: fabric (overall material)
• Physical Description: metal (overall material)
• place made: United States: New York, New York
• ID Number: 2015.0255.01
• accession number: 2015.0255
• catalog number: 2015.0255.01
• Credit Line: Gift of Robert M. Hazen and Margaret H. Hazen
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.