Kepi Style Band Hat
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This hat was made by G. W. Simmons & Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, about 1870. It is a "Kepi" style band hat made of felt with leather visor, top, and trim, with two gold-tone embossed buttons connected to a leather strap with metal buckle, and a gold-tone medallion embossed with music lyres, horns, and music. There is a label inside the hat:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>FROM<br>G. W. SIMMONS & CO<br>Military Goods<br>32 to 44 North ST.<br>OAK HALL, BOSTON, MASS L P<br>Soothard [handwritten]<br>1 1/4 [handwritten]</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert M. Hazen and Margaret H. Hazen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0255.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0255
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0255.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 6 in x 10 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 15.24 cm x 25.7175 cm