Gibson Harp Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1919
name: label: maker
content: Gibson Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This harp guitar was made by the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1919. It is a sixteen course (6x1,10x1) Style U harp guitar with a spruce top, birch back and sides. The guitar is serial #56064 and bears the label: Patented Feb. 1 '98 [/] Patented March 30, '06 [/] Other Patents Pending [/] Gibson GUITAR Style U [/] Number 56064 is hereby [/] GUARANTEED [/] against faulty workmanship or material. Should [/] this instrument, with proper care and usage, go wrong, [/] we agree to repair it free of charge at our factory, or [/] to replace it with another of same style or value. [/] GIBSON MANDOLIN-GUITAR CO. [/] (MANUFACTURERS) [/] Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.A.“ Gibson made four styles of harp guitars from about 1903 until the mid 1920s with the Style U being the most popular and the largest.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
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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.78.04
label: accession number
content: 1978.0845
label: catalog number
content: 78.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 1/2 in x 19 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 120.65 cm x 48.5775 cm x 12.065 cm