High crown fabric hat with multicolored palm tree print

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A fabric hat with a brim and tall crown made of printed cotton. Palm trees and buildings in red, yellow, and green are printed across the fabric with a blue background. Buckram is used on the inside of the hat’s brim as a stiffener. The inside of the hat is lined in black with cotton fabric at the interior top of the crown and synthetic silk at the interior sides. The printed fabric on the exterior continues to the underside of the brim. The hat is entirely machine stitched. This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.

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