"Ah! So Pure" from Martha: Museum Object and Cultural History
"Ah! So Pure" from Martha: date made: ca 1878. Object Name: music strip. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This music strip was made by Autophone Comapny in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is Autophone strip #126 - "Ah! So Pure" from Martha. This strip can be played in 22-key model autophones.
This instrument features U. S. Patent #211821, dated December 3, 1878, by Henry B. Horton, for improvements in mechanical musical instruments that play perforated paper strips. In the patent description the inventor uses the term “autophone” to describe the instrument.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1878
- Object Name: music strip
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 24 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 61.595 cm x 13.335 cm
- place made: United States: New York, Ithaca
- ID Number: MI.68.13.11
- accession number: 277816
- catalog number: 68.13.11
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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