German Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1875 - 1880
notes: label: Description
content: This guitar was made in Germany, around 1875-1880, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a 6 course guitar (6x1), with a peghead with wooden tuning pegs. This guitar appears as item #6044 in J. Howard Foote' Catalogue from 1880: "Maple. dark red color, finely inlaid with pearl, etc., Spanish model, finely finished $5.40" "..a line of cheap and handsome Guitars of German make, with peg heads."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055689
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 36 in x 11 in; 8.89 cm x 91.44 cm x 27.94 cm