Emory Guitar played by Mississippi John Hurt at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890-1895
label: date made
content: ca 1900 - 1910
name: label: user
content: Hurt, Mississippi John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Emory Guitar (ca 1890-1895) played by Mississippi John Hurt at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. Emory guitars appear to have only been sold in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Max Meyer & Bro. store. By the 1960s, the guitar was owned by Tom Hoskins, who loaned the guitar to Hurt for his 1963 performance at Newport. The guitar eventually ended up in the possession of South Carolina luthier, Darrell Guinn. Guinn identified the guitar by comparing cracks in the guitar's body to photographs from the 1963 festival. Wooden guitar with darker wooden neck. White inlay on neck reads "EMORY." Tuning pegs are white. Line of decorative wood inlay down back.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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 Darrell Guinn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0191.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0191
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0191.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 in x 14 1/2 in x 5 in; 96.52 cm x 36.83 cm x 12.7 cm