A pair of blue high-heeled shoes from Mae's Millinery Shop. The uppers are made from satin fabric dyed a deep, bright blue. The 2 1/2-inch heels are covered in the same color fabric. The shoes are closed at the toe, which is pointed at the tip. The soles…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.32ab
Pair of dark blue Asics sneakers. Sneakers are the "Tiger" style with mesh on the toe box. Suede leather heel counters, and vamp. Criss-crossing leather lines on either side of the shoe. Lines have holes for ventilation. Laces are dark gray and are laced…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.46.5ab
A pair of black boots from an S1W uniform. The toe box, lacing panel, and heel cap of the boots are made from black leather. The side vamps and the tongue are made from black ripstop nylon fabric. Black faux suede trims the foot opening. A tag with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.33.8.8ab
A pair of size 12-14 Burlington socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The brown, knee length, tube socks feature a gold band at the cuff. The legs of the socks are woven with thin ribbing over the shin panel and in step and a basket…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.22.1ab
A pair of size 12-14 Burlington socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The brown, knee length, tube socks feature a gold band at the cuff. The legs of the socks are woven with thin ribbing over the shin panel and in step and a basket…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.22.2ab
A pair of size 8.5 “Chuck Taylor All Star” Converse sneakers worn by Cab Calloway. The exterior upper shoes are primarily constructed from black, cotton canvas and white rubber. The toe boxes are rounded. The shoes are double stitched with white thread…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.18ab
A pair of clear plastic sling-back heels from Mae's Millinery Shop. The shoes are open-toed with clear plastic uppers and silver metallic fabric straps that close around the back of the heel and are adjustable with a metal buckle. The insoles are lined…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.26ab
A pair of tan combat boots worn by Admiral Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half). The boots have a leather upper with two (2) ventilation holes with mesh coverings at each inner side near the ball of the foot. The legs and tongues are made from…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.146.2.6ab
Pair of Olympic Converse sneakers worn by Rafer Johnson. The off-white polyester sneakers have a bright purple leather chevron on both sides of each shoe, with a purple star above each of the four chevrons. The purple leather also trims the edge of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.223.4ab
Pair of white cotton gloves from Mae's Millinery Shop. Three (3) decorative seams are sewn along the top hand of each glove. The manufacturer's name, size, and fiber content are stamped in blue on the interior of the left glove.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.48.1ab
Pair of cream gloved owned by Mary Church Terrell. The cream knit gloves are mid-forearm length. There is scallop detailing down the center and along the edge. There is a torn interior tag that has [2] stamped in black ink. They are slightly discolored.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2017.13.1.27ab
Cuff links from a White House butler uniform worn by Eugene Allen. The cuff links have a circular top and a rectangular toggle at the bottom to secure through the shirt cuffs. The decorative top has grey pearl inlay. One bottom toggle has a decorative…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.5.1.12.1ab
A pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway. The cufflinks are silver toned with a small, round, cabochon, onyx front faces set inside silver toned cups and insert members. The posts and toggles are also silver tone. The toggles are plain on one side and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.26.1ab
A pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway. The cufflinks are silver toned with a small, round, cabochon, onyx front faces set inside silver toned cups and insert members. The posts and toggles are also silver tone. The toggles are plain on one side and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.26.2ab
A pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway. The cufflinks are silver toned with a small, round, cabochon, onyx front faces set inside silver toned cups and insert members. The posts and toggles are also silver tone. The toggles are plain on one side and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.26.3ab
A pair of House of Doré Doré (DD) black dress socks from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The calf length tube socks are entirely black. The cuff, heel, and toe are constructed from slightly darker, woven, ribbed fabric. While the leg, foot,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.18ab
A pair of detachable cream fur collars. The front of the flat semicircular collar (a) is made of cream fur and is backed with batting possibly lambswool covered with cotton gauze. The edges of the batting and gauze are finished with a half inch wide cream…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.950ab
A pair of dog tags (2014.142.4ab) with chain (2014.142.4c) for Vernon O. Nicolls, who served with the 758th Tank Battalion of the United States Army during World War II. One silver colored metal dog tag (2014.142.4a) has the text [NICOLLS, VERNON O /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.142.4abc
A gold plated, enamel pair of earrings from the India Folkways collection designed by Bill Smith. The earrings are identical. Each has a hexagon shaped body with a hexagon shape impressed into the body of the pendant, with a gold background and black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.7.11ab
A mixed metals and colorful ceramic mask pair of earrings designed and created by Billye Oliver. Each earring is similar in design, with earring 6a having a screw back fastener and 6b having a clip on fastener. The main body of each earring is a flat, tear…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.7.6ab
A pair of mixed metal earrings designed and created by Russell Ferrell. The earrings mirror each other. The main base is a piece of metal capturing a woman’s side profile facing outward and continuing down to create a neck. A black stone is placed at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.7.4ab
A colorful pair of enamel earrings designed and created by Sterling Vance Hykes. The square shaped earrings mirror each other. The earrings have a dark green background and a tree-like figure on one side and parallel to it is a yellow arrowhead with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.7.7ab
Pair of elbow length cream leather gloves lined in cream silk knit. The gloves are seamed down the exterior side and along the fingers. There is an opening at each wrist that closes with three (3) small pearl colored plastic buttons, none of which are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.48.8ab
Pair of elbow-length white leather gloves (a,b) from Mae's Millinery Shop. A blue stamp for the manufacturer Wear-Right is at the interior left glove near the opening. The plastic bag (c) is clear and has red type that reads "to flatter and slenderize your…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.48.9abc
