eyeglasses
date: label: Date made
content: 1970-1975
name: label: maker
content: SRO
notes: label: Description
content: Gold-filled metal wire rims; rectangular-shaped frames around lenses, with rounded corners; bottom corners slant slightly outward from top corners; glasses joined at bridge with wider metal band; additional thin wire runs from top R of L lens to top L of R lens; wider metal ands with C ridge attached to upper outside corners of frames, curve at R angles, and end almost immediately with hinge attached; side pieces are attached to other end of hinge; side pieces, of the same ridged metal band, have bakelite (?) ear pieces, which curve down and widen out at ends; nose guards.
label: Description
content: Donor Spencer R. Crew wore these glasses to his graduation from Brown University in 1971, along with the dashiki in this accession (.003). Spencer later became the Director of the National Museum of American History and in 2019 served as the Interim Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Originally acquired for use in the exhibition "Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender and Power" which ran from June 28, 1989 to February 24, 1991 at the National Museum of American History.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sandra P. and Spencer R. Crew
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0135.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Eyeglasses
label: Object Type
content: Eye Glasses