This is a wood clapper instrument from Harlem's famed Cotton Club. The text on one side of the clapper reads: "Hear Ethel Waters Sing Stormy Weather."
Wooden clapper from the Cotton Club promoting Ethel Waters
- Description
- This is a wood clapper instrument with black etched type on front and back. Consisting of three pieces of wood, two small rectangles are attached via thin metal strips to the large paddle-shaped base, one on each side. There is black type on both small wooden rectangles. The type on one side of the clapper reads, "The Cotton Club/ Aristocrat of Harlem/ Lenox Ave. & 142nd St. / Phone Bradhurst 2-7767-1687." On reverse side type reads, "Hear/ Ethel Waters/ Sing/ Stormy Weather/ Geo. Dewey Washington." There is a decorative border in black ink around both rectangles. There is text on the reverse side at one end of the rectangle that reads "National Bo [illegible] Co. / [illegible] west 64th [illegible]."
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcribed by digital volunteers
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Subject of
- Ethel Waters, American, 1896 - 1977
- Cotton Club, American, 1923 - 1940
- Date
- ca. 1933
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dwandalyn R. Reece in memory of Pauline Watkins Reece
- Medium
- ink on wood with metal
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 × 8 1/2 × 7/8 in. (5.1 × 21.6 × 2.2 cm)
- Type
- noisemakers
