Snare drum

Date: 1910 ca.

Place Made:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America

Serial No: none

SignedPaper label inside drum: HARMONY DRUM / PATENTED JUNE 27TH 1905 / NOV 14 1908 / SOLD BY (handwritten) D. S. Johnston Co.

Markingsnone

DescriptionMahogany shell with painted rims. Inlaid eight-pointed star around the vent hole.

DimensionsShell height (with rims): 260 mm (10-1/4 in)
Head diameter: 444 mm (17-1/2 in)

ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.

Terms

Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Not on view

Published ReferencesJayson Dobney, Innovations in American Snare Drums 1850-1920, MM Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2003, pp. 154-155.

Object number: 03027