Society of Singers Sweatshirt
date: label: manufacturing date
content: 1989
name: label: wearer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sweatshirt is made of a white cotton/polyester blend. It is a long-sleeve sweatshirt with printed black letters:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>IT’S TIME THE RARE BIRD CALLED A SINGER<br> HAD SOME TENDER LOVING CARE<br>SOCIETY OF SINGERS<br>[picture of songbird on microphone]</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Society of Singers was co-founded by Ginny Mancini and Donna (Fowler) Manners in 1984. It was a nonprofit charitable organization that was dedicated to helping professional singers. The main fundraising event was a ceremony presenting the Ella Award, named after its first recipient, Ella Fitzgerald, in 1989. Mike Love was the last recipient of the award in 2014. The organization ceased in 2017.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0342.018
label: accession number
content: 1996.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0342.018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sweatshirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; 64.77 cm x 57.15 cm x 4.7625 cm