American Field Drum
date: label: date made
content: 1740-1799
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This field drum was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1740-1799. It has a wood shell with nails throughout. The wood hoops are covered in skin with rope laced through leather ears.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The drum was used by Benjamin Chester Chapin (1872-1918), an actor who toured the country with a one-man show about Abraham Lincoln in the late 19th century. Chapin turned it into a play, Lincoln at the White House, which debuted on Broadway in 1906, lasting for 21 performances. The play traveled and was subsequently revived on Broadway for the 1909 bicentennial of Lincoln‘s birth, lasting for 17 performances.</.p>
label: Description
content: <p>A program from the 1908 touring show indicates that the play is “in Four Acts - with complete scenery, costumes and properties, presented by a specially selected dramatic company under personal direction of the author.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The attribution date for the drum is subject to study.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Percussion
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucille Ann Chapin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.032333
label: accession number
content: 68542
label: catalog number
content: 32333
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 19 in x 19 in; 40.64 cm x 48.26 cm x 48.26 cm