"Come To Jesus"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1878
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music strip was made by Autophone Comapny in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is Autophone strip #18 - "Come To Jesus." This strip can be played in 22-key model autophones.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>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.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Ithaca
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.68.13.03
label: accession number
content: 277816
label: catalog number
content: 68.13.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music strip
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 28.575 cm x 13.335 cm