Hat worn by Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies
date: label: date made
content: before 1962
name: label: wearer
content: Ebsen, Buddy
notes: label: Description
content: Hat worn by Buddy Ebsen in the role of Jed Clampett in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. The brown brimmed hat has no maker's mark and is severely worn and weathered, with numerous holes and slits, including a large cut separating the crown of the hat from the body of it, that have been lightly sewn together with brown thread. The hat was created to look ragged and well-worn.
label: Description
content: The Beverly Hillbillies was created by Paul Henning and produced by Filmways Television for CBS, where it aired from 1962-1971. The show told the story of the Clampett family, led by patriarch Jed (Buddy Ebsen), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, as recounted in the theme song “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. Upon discovering that his homestead is sitting on a rich oil deposit, Jed manages to sell the property to an oil company for a fortune and decides to move with his family to the wealthy community of Beverly Hills, California. The series mined for comedy the naivety and personal foibles of the Clampett clan, as well as their interactions with their scheming and condescending neighbors. The series ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year. A number of episodes remain among the most watched American television episodes of all time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Comedy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dorothy Ebsen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0152.01.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0152
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0152.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 14 in x 14 in; 15.24 cm x 35.56 cm x 35.56 cm