Piano Registers and Microfilm Location and Footnotes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Chickering, Jonas, 1798-1853
setName: label: See more items in
content: Chickering & Sons Piano Company Collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Volumes record the number of the instrument, the model, the name of the purchaser, the date of the shipment, and related information (Volume 1A reports the original cost).  Some volumes have pages stuck together; possible water damage.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1823-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0264, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These volumes record the number of the instrument, the model, the name of the purchaser, the date of the shipment, and related information (Volume 1A reports the original cost). Some volumes have pages stuck together; possible water damage.  Some grand pianos from turn of the century onward are not listed in the ledgers. It is thought that Chickering may have had a duplicate set of serial numbers for grand pianos but this collection lacks that volume.