Twill tape with buttons from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Twill tape with buttons from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Date: mid 20th-late 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
Three spare pearl buttons from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The three identical plastic pearl buttons are round, flat, and each have four holes. They are sewn at equal lengths to a piece of natural color cotton twill tape with white thread.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: mid 20th-late 20th century
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: buttons (fasteners)
- Medium: twill with plastic and thread
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 15/16 × 9 3/8 × 1/8 in. (2.4 × 23.8 × 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: A2015.273.1.1.10
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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