Shirt, worn by Johnny Puleo
name: label: maker
content: Arrow
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This shirt was made by Arrow, undetermined date. It is a long-sleeved button down, green corduroy shirt with a pink fabric heart patch on the right front and red diamond-shaped fabric patch and a pink diamond-shaped patch on the left front. There is a large pink fabric diamond-shaped patch on the back.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This shirt was previously owned and worn by Johnny Puleo (1907-1983), an American harmonica player and actor. Puleo got his big break after performing at a contest held by harmonica player and actor, Borrah Minevitch (born Boruch Meinewitz, 1902-1955), and leader of the group The Harmonica Rascals. After Minevitch’s death in 1955, Puleo formed his own group, The Harmonica Gang. The group performed throughout the world and made several recordings during their association. Puleo appeared in several television programs and films.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Harmonicas
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Josephine M. DeRosa and Louise H. Puleo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0264.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0264
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0264.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 1/4 in x 22 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; 71.755 cm x 57.15 cm x 4.7625 cm