Tap shoes worn by Lonnie Burr
date: label: Date made
content: 1948
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Child's white leather tap shoes worn by Lonnie Burr in dance performances on stage in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Lonnie Burr is an American entertainer best known for his work on the original 1955-1959 series run of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club. Burr’s parents had worked in vaudeville as a dance team known as “Dot and Dash,” and Burr became a professional performer at five, working in television and radio. In 1955, he was hired by Walt Disney Studios to be one of the twenty four original cast members, called Mouseketeers, of the ABC network series <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>. A member of the show’s first string unit, the Red Team, Burr performed in comic sketches, musical numbers, and in the show’s Roll Call segment. After <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> ceased production in 1958, Burr worked as both an actor and director for the stage, motion pictures and television.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lonnie Burr
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0298.11
label: accession number
content: 2004.0298
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0298.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoes, child
label: Object Name
content: shoes, tap
label: Object Name
content: shoes, tap, worn by mouseketeer Lonnie Burr on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club"
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 16.51 cm