Santa Claus Marionette
date: label: Date made
content: 1920-1960
name: label: maker; user
content: Slover, Alvin
label: user
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
label: associated institution
content: Western Sugar Refinery
label: user
content: Larson, James Willard
label: user
content: Larson, Joyce Dean
label: maker
content: Slover, Alvin
label: maker
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This santa marionette is one of 15 puppets we received from the Slover-King-Larson family. These puppets for the Slover Flossy [Florence King] and Minnie [Louella], playing vaudeville shows to newly populated towns in the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Oregon. Florence King wrote to her cousin, Joyce Larson, November 13, 1974 (p.2), that she restrung her marionettes annually with heavy linen shoemaker's thread because constant performances wore out or broke the strings, but this one never got restrung like the others and just became an annual family holiday decoration in the Slover-King-Larson households. She was reluctant to part with him, writing in the same letter (p. 1), that though she had sold all of the other Slover Marionettes after retirement in 1970, "I have the 12th one here that I want to keep. (Dressed like Santa Claus). Some day Mary [donor] can have that."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater, Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Holidays and Celebrations, general
label: Subject
content: Christmas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0005.11
label: accession number
content: 2004.0005
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0005.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puppet
label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: adhesive tape (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 1/2 in x 12 in x 6 1/2 in; 64.77 cm x 30.48 cm x 16.51 cm