Hall & Son Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1848-1875
name: label: maker
content: William Hall & Son
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was made for William Hall & Son in New York around 1848-1875. It is a six course (6x1) guitar with a spruce top, rosewood back, mahogany veneered birch sides, and a machine head. William Hall formed a number of partnerships in New York from 1821 to 1874, including Firth & Hall; Firth, Hall & Pond; and William Hall & Son. This guitar bears the stamp:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>“WILLIAM HALL & SON<br>239 BROADWAY<br>NEW-YORK 2432.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Hall & Son published and sold sheet music and manufactured and sold pianos, organs, guitars, and woodwind instruments. It is believed that guitars and banjos sold by Hall & Son were made by James Ashborn in Connecticut.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edith M. Lawall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.78.02
label: accession number
content: 1978.0845
label: catalog number
content: 78.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 4 in; 90.805 cm x 28.8925 cm x 10.16 cm