CCB Band Hat
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This hat was made by Baker & McKenney in New York, New York, about 1880. It is a band hat made of beaver skin with a separate crest attached at top of hat. There is a gold-tone braid at the front of the hat connected by two gold-tone buttons embossed with brass instruments. The gold-tone medallion on the front of the hat is embossed with musical instruments and the letters "CCB." The edge of the hat is covered with grosgrain ribbon. The interior of the hat is lined with burgundy fabric and green fabric on the underside of the front and the back. There is a label inside the hat:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>BAKER & MCKENNEY<br>MILITARY GOODS<br>141 GRAND ST.<br>NEW YORK</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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: 2015.0255.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0255
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0255.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beaver skin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)