Fairbanks Five-String Banjo
date: label: date made
content: 1899
name: label: maker
content: A. C. Fairbanks Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This banjo was made by The A.C. Fairbanks Company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1899. It is a Five-String Banjo, Regent model, serial #18151, with a metal clad wood rim and maple neck, 28 brackets, ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl inlay, 22 frets, pearwood headstock with mother-of-pearl inlay, four ivory (one replacement) and one wood tuning peg. There is an engraved metal plate on the dowel stick:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The A.C.FAIRBANKS Co<br>MAKERS<br>- BOSTON, MASS. –</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Albert Conant Fairbanks began making banjos in 1868 with William A. Cole, a well-known Boston banjo player and teacher. Around 1888, the A.C. Fairbanks Co., Fairbanks was joined by David L. Day. Six years later, Fairbanks sold his interest in the company to businessmen Cummings & Dodge. In 1904, the Vega Co. acquired the business and continued to produce popular banjos made by Fairbanks.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Banjos
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James P. and Vada M. Hogan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0296.01
label: serial number
content: 18151
label: accession number
content: 1999.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0296.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banjo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: mother-of-pearl (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 92.075 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.985 cm