Banjo collection
- Collection
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
- Item Media Type
- Collection
- Collection Designation
- Special Collections
- Language
- English
- Description
- A collection of materials related to banjos held by the Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Many of these items were acquired from the Robert Fraker Collection of Nineteenth-Century Banjo Instruction Manuals. Includes: 36 banjo instruction manuals 32 minstrel broadsides Sermons, essays, and other writings Three published dissertations on the banjo Two banjo music sales catalogs One loose piece of sheet music
- Note
For an introduction to the banjo, its history, and its cultural significance up to the Jazz Age and biographies of the authors of these banjo instruction manuals see 19th Century Banjo Instruction Manuals, a digital exhibit on the Hamilton College Library Online Exhibits website (powered by Omeka).
For a selected bibliography of primary sources for further research on the history of the banjo, see Bibliography - 19th Century Banjo Instruction Manuals, a digital exhibit hosted on the Hamilton College Library Online Exhibits website (powered by Omeka).
- Institutional Owner
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
- Restrictions on Access
- There are no restrictions on access to this resource.
- Rights Statement
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Manifest
- Christian Goodwillie
- Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives
- E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
- Telephone: (315) 859-4447
- Special Collections
- Burke Library
- 198 College Hill Road
- Clinton, NY 13323
