Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway: Date: April 1944. Created by: St. Louis Public Service Company, American, 1927 - 1966. Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
Transit pass for the St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway. The pass features information about the 9th Annual Pine St. Y Circus featuring Cab Calloway. The pass is a cream and orange-colored pass with additional text and a graphic of Cab Calloway off-center left.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: April 1944
- Created by: St. Louis Public Service Company, American, 1927 - 1966
- Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Subject of: Pine Street YMCA, American, 1919 - 1955
- Type: passes (tickets)
- Medium: ink on wove paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (5.4 x 9.2 cm)
- Place depicted: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Transportation
- Object number: 2010.34.20
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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