Mrs. Berrysnobe Hand Puppet
date: label: Date made
content: 1862-1975
name: label: associated person
content: Slover, James Henry
label: associated person
content: Slover, Alvin
label: maker; user
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
label: user
content: Larson, James Willard
label: user
content: Larson, Joyce Dean
label: Maker
content: Slover, James Henry
label: maker
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One of five puppets, #2004.0005.12-.16, used in James Henry Slover's play, "Mrs. Berrysnobe's Hotel." Star character of the play James Henry Slover wrote and used to entertain the Union troops when he served at Ft. Snelling in Minnesota in 1862. Following the war, James Slover billed himself as "Arkansas Jim" in a traveling show modeled after the show of his friend, Bill Cody's, "Buffalo Bill Show." His two sons, Alvin and Billy, later joined the troupe. By the end of his career, he and his grown sons, their wives, and children, including Florence and her sister, traveled together in a medicine show to small towns in the midwest. By 1976, when Joyce, Willard and their daughter, Mary, the donor, inherited and began using the Slover puppet collection to entertain audiences in the basement of their LaCrosse, Wisconsin home, the original Mrs. Berrysnobe had disappeared though her name lived on.
label: Description (Brief)
content: See slover geneaolgy
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater, Puppetry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0005.16
label: accession number
content: 2004.0005
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0005.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puppet
label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: synthetic fibers (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: hair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 14 in x 5 in; 55.88 cm x 35.56 cm x 12.7 cm