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Banjo by Samuel Swaim Stewart, circa 1890
Stewart, Samuel Swaim, 1855-18981885/1895
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
This iconic American instrument had its roots in the stringed instruments played by free and enslaved African Americans living in colonial America. By the 1890s, the banjo was firmly ensconced into American popular culture.
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- Title: Banjo by Samuel Swaim Stewart, circa 1890
- Creator: Stewart, Samuel Swaim, 1855-1898
- Date Created: 1885/1895
- Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Subject Keywords: Banjos, Stringed instruments, Musical instruments
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=154465
- Object Name: Banjo
- Object ID: 80.39.1
- Image ID: THF94379
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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