Nurse's uniform dress worn by Pauline Brown Payne
Object Details
- Date
- 1944
- Manufactured by
- Angelica Corporation, American, founded 1904
- Worn by
- Pauline Brown Payne, American
- Description
- A blue-and-white striped nurse's uniform worn by Pauline Brown Payne. The dress has a button-up front and detachable white collar and sleeve cuffs. The collar is attached to the neck of the dress with one button at the nape and the collars are attached with two buttons on the outside of the sleeve. The sleeves have the manufacturer's information stamped in black ink on the inside and the collar there are two names written in freehand. The dress is an A-line silhouette with a pocket at the PL breast and one on the PR hip. The stripes of the dress are vertical, except at the waist, where there is a horizontally cut band. There are white buttons above and below as well as at the waist. There is a manufacturer's and a personal tag sewn to the inside nape of the neck.
- Topic
- African American
- Clothing and dress
- Education
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Women
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Clothing-Historical
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pauline Brown Payne
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.90.2.1
- Type
- dresses
- uniforms
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Medium
- cloth, thread, plastic (organic)
- Dimensions
- H x W (Flat): 45 1/2 × 30 11/16 in. (115.6 × 78 cm)
- Waist: 13 in. (33 cm)
- H x W (Collar): 3 1/8 × 24 in. (8 × 61 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2013.90.2.1
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