Silk Stockings: Museum Object and Cultural History
Silk Stockings: release date: 1955. manufacturer: RCA Victor. Object Name: sound recording.
The object in the museum catalogue
Original Broadway Cast. Silk Stockings (RCA Victor LSO-1102 (e)). 33-1/3 rpm.
Silk Stockings, with music by Cole Porter, lyrics by Cole Porter, and book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on February 24, 1955, and closed on April 14, 1956, after a run of 478 performances.
Materials, dates and provenance
- release date: 1955
- manufacturer: RCA Victor
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: vinyl (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
- place made: United States: New Jersey, Camden
- ID Number: 1980.0692.440
- maker number: LSO-1102(E)
- accession number: 1980.0692
- catalog number: 1980.0692.440
- Credit Line: Transfer from Carl Vinson Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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