Catalog for the Hooker-Howe Costume Company: Museum Object and Cultural History
Catalog for the Hooker-Howe Costume Company: date made: ca. 1940s. date made: ca. 1930s. Object Name: catalog.
The object in the museum catalogue
Catalog for the Hooker-Howe Costume Company of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The booklet is marked Catalog "A" No. 56. The catalog advertises costumes, wigs, makeup, posters, and other supplies for theatrical productions, including blackface minstrel shows. Illustrations throughout the catalog demonstrate the costumes and suggested use.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca. 1940s
- date made: ca. 1930s
- Object Name: catalog
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9 1/4 in x 6 in; 23.495 cm x 15.24 cm
- place made: United States: Massachusetts, Haverhill
- Subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Entertainment, general
- Subject: Theater
- Subject: Theater, Minstrel Shows
- Subject: Costume
- ID Number: 2017.0295.08
- accession number: 2017.0295
- catalog number: 2017.0295.08
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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