Dickie worn by Bessie Bonehill
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880s
name: label: user
content: Bonehill, Bessie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Green silk dickie, part of a costume worn by vaudeville performer Bessie Bonehill, a male impersonator. The dickie is lined with unbleached muslin. Bonehill wore this costume while performing in New York in the 1890s. Her male impersonation act was a popular success in her native England as well as the United States, where she toured widely until her death in 1902.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Vaudeville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dorothy M. Wallace
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0432.08
label: accession number
content: 1986.0432
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0432.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dickie
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green, pale (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (lining color)
label: Physical Description
content: muslin (lining material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 cm x 15 cm; 11 13/16 in x 5 29/32 in