Silvertone Electric-Acoustic Guitar, used by Jesse Fuller
date: label: date made
content: ca 1962
name: label: user
content: Fuller, Jesse
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This electric-acoustic guitar was made for Sears around 1962 by companies like Danelectro and Harmony. Silvertone guitars were popular because of their solid construction and inexpensive pricing.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was owned and played by Jesse Fuller (1896-1976), a one-man-band folk and blues singer from the San Francisco Bay area who accompanied his guitar-playing with singing, harmonica, percussion, and a foot-operated bass instrument called a fotdella. Fuller played guitar as a child but didn’t become a professional musician until the early 1950s. As a songwriter, Fuller is best known for his songs, “San Francisco Bay Blues” and “Beat It on Down the Line.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Jesse Fuller purchased this Silvertone guitar in 1962, from a Detroit Sears, after his original Maurer guitar was stolen and he needed another guitar to be able to make his playing engagement that evening.</p>
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: Sounding American Music
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alice Robinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0053.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0053
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0053.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 107 cm x 40 cm x 10 cm; 42 1/8 in x 15 3/4 in x 3 15/16 in