Vogt Snare Drum
date: label: date made
content: 1864
name: label: maker
content: Vogt, Ernest
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This snare drum was made by Ernest Vogt, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in1864. It has a blue-painted shell with a painted eagle design with a banner held in the eagle’s beak inscribed “REG: U.S. INFANTRY,” and two skin heads. There are two red-painted wood hoops drilled with 10 holes each for rope which is laced through leather ears, used to tighten the hoops. The shell is reinforced with brass tacks in a design unique to the workmanship of Ernest Vogt.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The label on the inside of the shell indicates Vogt received a government contract on December 29, 1864. Approximately 2,000 regiment drums under this contract, were made from the workshop of Ernest Vogt.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This drum was previously owned by the donor's grandfather, Samuel Kyle (1845-1924). Samuel Kyle served as a private in Company K, 22nd Regiment of New Jersey. Kyle was mustered in Septemebr 2, 1862 and mustered out June 22, 1863. As was the practice of the era, Kyle acquired this drum as a memento at the end of his tour of duty.</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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
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content: Military
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John S. Kyle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.069758
label: accession number
content: 274169
label: catalog number
content: 69758
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rope (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 17 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 44.45 cm x 44.45 cm