Damn Yankees Window Card: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Window card for the 1995 production of Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis. The musical comedy is set in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s and follows Joe Boyd as he makes a deal to help the Washington Senators baseball team beat “those damn Yankees.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date made: 1995
• performing artist: Lewis, Jerry
• Object Name: Window Card
• Object Name: card
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 10 in x 14 in; 25.4 cm x 35.56 cm
• Subject: Musical Theater
• ID Number: 2001.0307.04
• accession number: 2001.0307
• catalog number: 2001.0307.04
• Credit Line: Christopher Lewis
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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