Bacon Tenor Banjo
date: label: date made
content: 1932
label: date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: Bacon Banjo Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This banjo was made by the Bacon Banjo Company, Inc. of Groton, Connecticut, about 1932. It is a Four-String Tenor Banjo, “B&D Senorita” model, serial #31245 with 24 brackets and a pearloid covered resonator, fretboard, and peghead. “Senorita” models were the lower priced, medium grade, banjos made by the company. There is an inscribed metal plate on the back of the resonator and stamped on the dowel stick:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>MADE BY<br>BACON BANJO CO. INC.<br>GROTON, CONN</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Fred J. Bacon started the company in 1920. Two years later, David L. Day left the Vega Company to join the Bacon Banjo Company. By 1940, the Bacon Banjo Company had been purchased by the Gretsch Company who continued to make Bacon and B&D banjos until the late 1960s.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Groton
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Banjos
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ivan T. Lorenzen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.71.15
label: catalog number
content: 71.15
label: accession number
content: 297495
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banjo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: animal skin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 13 in x 3 1/2 in; 85.09 cm x 33.02 cm x 8.89 cm