Boots worn by Lonnie Burr on The Mouseketeer Reunion
date: label: date made
content: before 1980
name: label: maker
content: Acme
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pair of cowboy boots worn by Lonnie Burr in the Talent Round Up segment of the 1980 television special <i>The Mouseketeer Reunion</i>. The brown leather cowboy boots are stitched with a flame design and the name Lonnie is written on the inside of each boot.
label: Description (Brief)
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
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content: Culture and the Arts: 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: 2004.0298.05
label: accession number
content: 2004.0298
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0298.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boots, worn by mouseketeer Lonnie Burr on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club"
label: Object Name
content: boots, pair of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 11 in; 34.925 cm x 27.94 cm