Bottle tag from the Cotton Club: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Small rectangular white tag with a large hole in the upper third. Below, in the remaining two-thirds is text "NOTICE TO GUESTS/ The content of this bottle is/ sold to you as a beverage and/with the understanding that/ it will not be mixed or used/ with any alcoholic content/ liquor in violation of the/ prohibition laws./ THE MANAGEMENT/ COTTON CLUB/ Lenox Ave. at 142nd St./ New York." On the reverse, written upside down in pencil is a multi-lined illegible note.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1923-1933
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Cotton Club, American, 1923 - 1940
• Type: tags
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 3/16 × 2 3/8 in. (13.2 × 6 cm)
• Place used: Harlem, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Cooking and dining
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Musical Theatre
• Topic: Nightlife
• Topic: Popular music
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2013.223.43
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vicki Gold Levi
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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