Popeye
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Painted chalkware figurine of the character Popeye, wearing white pants, black shirt with yellow sailor collar, yellow shoes and a white sailor hat with black brim. His arms are formed to display bulging muscles. Simplistic painting on face, with exaggerated jutting chin and smoking a pipe.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Chalkware figurines were popular in the late 18th and early-mid 20th centuries. The figurines were usually made from sculpted gypsum or plaster moulds and painted with watercolors. Often these works were referred to as "carnival chalk" because they were given out as prizes at carnivals in the first half of the 20th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janet Vart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0064.20
label: accession number
content: 2009.0064
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0064.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chalkware figurine
label: Object Name
content: chalk ware figurine
label: Object Name
content: figurine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 5 in x 4 in; 36.195 cm x 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm