Promotional Cotton Club mallet owned by Cab Calloway
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1937
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Distributed by
content: Cotton Club, American, 1923 - 1940
label: Owned by
content: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
label: Subject of
content: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American, 1878 - 1949
notes: label: Description
content: A promotional Cotton Club noisemaker mallet owned by Cab Calloway. The mallet has a red, barrel shaped head. The head has two carved line at each end. The handle is long, thin and natural wood colored. It has black text stamped at the center that reads [COTTON CLUB / B'WAY at 48th STREET Circle 7-1000 / BILL ROBINSON & CAB CALLOWAY / AND AN ALL STAR SEPIAN REVUE]. The text is bookended with a bands with a red square pattern.
place: label: Place used
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Advertising
label: Topic
content: Band (Music)
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Conductors (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Nightlife
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Theatre
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Cabell “Cab” Calloway III Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: A2015.273.1.3
objectType: label: Type
content: hammers (percussion beaters)
label: Type
content: noisemakers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on wood with dye
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3/4 × 1 7/16 × 7 in. (1.9 × 3.7 × 17.8 cm)