Cigar Box Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1875 - 1899
notes: label: Description
content: This cigar box guitar was made by an unknown maker in North Carolina around 1875-1899. It is a four course (4x1) guitar made from a Morris & Son cigar box. Homemade instruments such as cigar box guitars and fiddles played an important part in jug bands and blues music in the late 19th century through the Great Depression.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: North Carolina
topic: label: Subject
content: Music
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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 Charles Hallock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.096844
label: accession number
content: 34639
label: catalog number
content: 96844
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gut (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 55.88 cm x 19.05 cm x 12.065 cm