Calico Ball / Callico Ball
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content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Textiles
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Textiles / Subject
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content: Box 23, Folder 3
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Realia
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content: Invitation printed on non-Calico fabric.  S.O. of O.B. event at the Academy of Music. Traditionally at Calico Balls, ladies would arrive wearing dresses made out of affordable Calico and would change in to finer garments later in the evening. The Calico dresses were then donated to the less fortunate women in the community.  In other instances, Calico would be worn but the dance or event involved some other form of fundraising or charity component.