Sweatshirt worn by Lonnie Burr on <i>The Mouseketeer Reunion</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1980
notes: label: Description
content: Lonnie Burr wore this sweatshirt on the 1980 television special <i>The Mouseketeer Reunion</i>, an episode of <i>Disney's Wonderful World</i> featuring the reunion of the original <i>Mickey Mouse Club</i> cast. The golden yellow nylon and acrylic knit sweatshirt has a white collar and sewn-on black cloth letters spelling "LONNIE" on its front. On the back, the shirt features a patch embroidered with the <i>Mickey Mouse Club</i> Mouseketeer logo.
label: Description
content: Lonnie Burr is an American entertainer best known for his work on the original 1955-1959 series run of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club. Burr’s parents had worked in vaudeville as a dance team known as “Dot and Dash,” and Burr became a professional performer at five, working in television and radio. In 1955, he was hired by Walt Disney Studios to be one of the twenty four original cast members, called Mouseketeers, of the ABC network series <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>. A member of the show’s first string unit, the Red Team, Burr performed in comic sketches, musical numbers, and in the show’s Roll Call segment. After <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> ceased production in 1958, Burr worked as both an actor and director for the stage, motion pictures and television.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lonnie Burr
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0298.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0298
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0298.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shirt, worn by Lonnie Burr on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club"
label: Object Name
content: shirt, worn by mouseketeer Lonnie Burr on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club"
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: acrylic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/2 in x 17 in; 62.23 cm x 43.18 cm