Sash worn by Bessie Bonehill: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sash worn by Bessie Bonehill: user: Bonehill, Bessie. Object Name: sash. Physical Description: green (overall color).
The object in the museum catalogue
Green velvet sash, part of a costume worn by vaudeville performer Bessie Bonehill, a male impersonator. The sash is lined with green satin. Bonehill wore this costume while performing in New York in the 1890s. Her male impersonation act was a popular success in her native England as well as the United States, where she toured widely until her death in 1902.
Materials, dates and provenance
- user: Bonehill, Bessie
- Object Name: sash
- Physical Description: green (overall color)
- Physical Description: satin (lining material)
- Physical Description: velvet (overall material)
- Physical Description: arsenic (dye material)
- Measurements: overall: 16 1/2 in x 69 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 176.53 cm
- general subject association: Vaudeville
- ID Number: 1986.0432.06
- accession number: 1986.0432
- catalog number: 1986.0432.06
- Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy M. Wallace
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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