Holton B-Flat Cornet
date: label: date made
content: 1921
name: label: maker
content: Frank Holton & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This cornet was made by Frank Holten & Co. in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1921. It is a B-flat cornet, Holton-Clarke model serial #57825, made of silver plated brass with 3 piston valves.Inscribed on the bell:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>HOLTON-CLARKE MODEL<br>MADE BY<br>Frank Holton & Co.<br>ELKHORN<br>WISC.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(and on the second valve):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>FRANK HOLTON & CO. ELKHORN, WIS.<br>57825</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This cornet is named after prominent American cornet player and composer, Herbert Lincoln Clarke (1867-1945). The Clark archival collection is at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Elkhorn
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cornets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert Erickson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.70.05
label: catalog number
content: 70.05
label: accession number
content: 287589
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cornet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 11.43 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 16.51 cm x 11.43 cm