Object Details
- Description
- Navy Nurse Corps cape worn as part of the indoor uniform during World War I. Navy blue wool cape with red lining. Button closure at front with several buttons lining the top and bottom of each arm hole. Two pockets with button closure at front. Blue wool belt with button attachments at waist.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Navy Department through The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
- ca. 1917
- associated date
- 1917 - 1918
- ID Number
- 1998.0165.83.01
- accession number
- 1998.0165
- catalog number
- 1998.0165.83.01
- Object Name
- Cape
- Other Terms
- Cape; Woman; Navy; Nurse Corps; Officer; Service
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall (padded and folded): 40 in x 33 in x 4 in; 101.6 cm x 83.82 cm x 10.16 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Naval
- Health & Medicine
- Military
- Modern Medicine and the Great War
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_460926
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-a802-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
