Hattie Carnegie White Hat
date: label: date made
content: 1951-1958
name: label: designer
content: Carnegie, Hattie
label: maker
content: Julius Garfinckel
notes: label: Description
content: Hattie Carnegie designed this white hat that was worn by Mildred R. Palmer during the 1950s. Born as Henrietta Koningeiser in Vienna in 1880, Hattie Carnegie began her career in fashion and design in New York by opening Carnegie–Ladies Hatter in 1909 with business partner Rose Roth. She chose the last name “Carnegie” to emulate America’s richest man, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Hattie began taking annual trips to Paris in 1919, and Hattie Carnegie, Inc., prospered by reinterpreting Parisian dress for the American consumer. Each annual fashion line from Hattie Carnegie could contain anywhere from five hundred to one thousand hats, designed to complement her original designs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mildred R. Palmer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0011.002
label: accession number
content: 1981.0011
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0011.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
label: Other Terms
content: hat; Headwear; Accessories Worn on the Body; Female