Blouse worn by Bessie Bonehill
date: label: date made
content: around 1890
name: label: user
content: Bonehill, Bessie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: White satin blouse, part of a costume worn by vaudeville performer Bessie Bonehill, a male impersonator. The long-sleeved blouse has a front opening but no fasteners present. 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Vaudeville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dorothy M. Wallace
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0432.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0432
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0432.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blouse
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: satin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 20 1/2 in; 58.42 cm x 52.07 cm