Collection Highlights
Thoughts on African Colonization
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.E448.G24.1832
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Trousers
Object Number:
1946.40b
Date:
1942
Medium:
Wool, plastic
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 14 x 33 1/2 in. ( 7 x 35.6 x 85.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: on label on right pocket lining: "MANUFACTURED BY / NAVAL CLOTHING FACTORY / NAME / RATE"
handwritten: on label on right pocket lining: "HOLLOWAY, H M"
stenciled: on left pocket lining: "HMH"
stenciled: inside left leg: "HOLLOWAY H. M."
Description:
Navy blue wool serge Navy trousers; 2 button horizontal fly, 4 button vertical fly at each hip; vertical slit pockets at the front on each side of the waistband, left pocket zips closed; trousers lace up the back seam.
Gallery Label:
These trousers are part of a uniform worn by H. Maxson Holloway when he served as a Yeoman 2nd Class in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Society owns several of his wartime uniforms; as a collection, they represent a wide range of different styles of Naval uniforms across the span of the war.
Credit Line:
Gift of H. Maxson Holloway
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
