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Collar stay from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

mid 20th-late 20th century

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

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

A metal collar stay from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The tan colored metal stay is a small, thin, flat piece of metal with a rounded edge on one side, and a pointed end with a rounded tip on the other that inserts into the shirt collar tab.

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: A2015.273.1.1.11

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