Margarita Lora's Dress
notes: label: Description
content: Between 1960 and 1962, over fourteen thousand unaccompanied children traveled from Cuba to the United States for an exodus that is now known as Operation Pedro Pan. After the Cuban revolution, some Cuban parents feared for their children's futures under the new Communist regime. They entrusted the Catholic Church, aid societies, and the U.S. State Department to connect their children with awaiting relatives and friends in the United States. Some were cared for by the Catholic Welfare Bureau and placed in temporary shelters in Miami before being relocated to foster families in 30 different States. These groups cared for children until the families could be reunited. Margarita Lora, who owned this dress, was one of the children brought to the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan from Cuba to Miami, Florida on August 14, 1961. She was eight years old, and ended up in foster care with her sister and two brothers, in Syracuse, New York.
place: label: place made
content: Cuba: Cuba
label: Associated Place
content: Cuba
topic: label: related event
content: Cold War
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margarita Lora
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0046.02
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0046.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (buttons material)
label: Measurements
content: center back: 25 3/4 in; 65.405 cm
label: Measurements
content: shoulder: 11 1/2 in; 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: waist: 12 1/2 in; 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: waist to hem: 14 11/16 in; 37.338 cm