Army mess dress white jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley

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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 white mess dress jacket worn by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley. The jacket is double-breasted, with a notched collar and a wide lapel. The jacket has six (6) gold buttons, three on each side, and on each button is the crest of the United States. The cuffs of the jacket are trimmed with two (2) narrow horizontal bars of white sleeve braid, above which there are scrolled Austrian knots made from four (4) strands of white sleeve braid. The jacket is lined with white synthetic fabric. There is a horizontally oriented inset breast pocket at each interior front side.

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