Shirt worn by Earl Shaffer while hiking the Appalachian Trail
name: label: user
content: Shaffer, Earl
label: maker
content: Taylor, David
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue plaid, long sleeve flannel shirt with two breast pockets and blue buttons. This was worn by the donor, Earl Shaffer during his 1998 walk through of the Appalachian Trail at age 80. This was the first of three times Shaffer was said to have walked the entire length of the 2,180 miles of the Trail. He hiked thru again in 1965 and 1998. The Appalachian Trail is one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world traveling through fourteen states along the Appalachian mountain range from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the Trail’s northern end in Katahdin, Maine. The trail—completed in 1937 thanks to the cooperation of government agencies, private partners, and volunteers—continues to be sustained by public-private partnerships.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Hiking
label: level of sport
content: recreational
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0195.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0195
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0195.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shirt
label: Object Name
content: shirt, hiking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 cm x 79 cm; x 20 1/2 in x 31 1/8 in