Jacket worn by Bessie Bonehill
name: label: user
content: Bonehill, Bessie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Velvet jacket, part of a costume worn by vaudeville performer Bessie Bonehill, a male impersonator. The dark green jacket has white lace extending from its sleeves and collar and is lined with green satin. 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
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dorothy M. Wallace
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0432.04
label: accession number
content: 1986.0432
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0432.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green, dark (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: satin (lining material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: arsenic (dye material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 24 in; 44.45 cm x 60.96 cm