American Guitar: Museum Object and Cultural History
American Guitar: date made: 1878 - 1882. Object Name: guitar. Physical Description: spruce (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This guitar was made by an unknown maker in the United States around 1878-1882. It is a six course (6x1) guitar with a spruce top, rosewood back and sides, cedar neck, and a patented machine head with ivory pegs. This guitar appears as item #6073 in J. Howard Foote' Catalogue from 1880: "Solid Rosewood, neatly inlaid with wood inlaying front, stripe down back, plain rosewood edges, finely finished...$23.00.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1878 - 1882
- Object Name: guitar
- Physical Description: spruce (overall material)
- Physical Description: rosewood (overall material)
- Physical Description: cedar (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: ivory (tuning peg heads material)
- Measurements: overall: 36 1/4 in x 12 in x 4 in; 92.075 cm x 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: MI.055692
- accession number: 11535
- catalog number: 55692
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Howard Foote
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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