Imogene Coca trading card
Imogene Coca trading card
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- Description (Brief)
- Trading card printed with color image of American actress and comedienne Imogene Coca. Biographical information about Coca is printed on the back of the card. This is card No. 84 from the" Television and Radio Stars of the National Broadcasting Company" (vertical backs) collectible set of 96 cards. The card was issued as an insert in a bubble gum package. Coca is shown wearing a trench coat in the photograph on the card; she was well-known for her "modest stripper" act in which she seductively shed a trench coat to reveal another underneath.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Card, Trade
- card
- Date made
- 1950-1959
- date made
- 1953
- depicted (sitter)
- Coca, Imogene
- maker
- Bowman Gum Inc.
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0377.24
- accession number
- 1982.0377
- catalog number
- 1982.0377.24
- subject
- Television
- Comedy
- Comedians
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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