Director’s chair owned by Cab Calloway

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 director’s chair owned by Cab Calloway. The folding chair is constructed with a folding wooden frame and a canvas seat and back cover. The frame itself is light colored wood with silver toned, metal braces, hinges, and other hardware. The legs are straight and uniform and terminate with slightly rounded ends capped with white rubber floor protectors. Both the canvas seat and back covers are plain orange canvas. Flocked, velvet-like, Cooper Black font, letter-shaped patches are adhered to the front of the back cover and read [CAB / CALLOWAY].

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