Washcloth from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Washcloth from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Date: after 1970. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
A washcloth from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The solidly orange washcloth is constructed from terry cloth cotton. It is square in shape with rounded corners and has a decorative band woven across the top and bottom edges.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1970
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: towels
- Medium: cotton (textile)
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 10 7/16 × 11 × 1/8 in. (26.5 × 28 × 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Health
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: A2015.273.1.1.43.1
- 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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