Denim shirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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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 Dickies dark denim half-sleeve t-shirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Louisiana. The cotton and polyester blend shirt features a collar, two buttoned breast pockets, sleeve buttons, and six front buttons (one missing). There is an inscription on dark blue tape adhered beneath the proper right breast pocket. The word “HUNT” is printed in large orange ink horizontally across the back of the shirt. On the inside of the shirt, the signature Dickies red, yellow, blue and white patch-tag, sewn beneath the shirt’s collar, reads: [Dickies / 80% CCOTTON 40% POLYESTER / MADE IN PAKISTAN / CARE IN SIDE SEAM RN20697 / A LEGEND IN WORK].

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