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    Faustino Negrete Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; England; France; Belgium; North Africa; Nebraska; European Theater. Technical Sergeant, Air Force, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Omaha, Nebraska; Anchorage, Alaska; Nevada; Korea.
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    Albisiphon in F, DCM 1342 Head joint in "T" configuration for vertical playing position and incorporating one coil to shorten overall length of instrument. See correspondence, 13 Nov. 1937, with G. Meriggioli. Instrument type: Albisiphon in F Materials: Silver plate over brass. 3 sections. Key Holes System: Boehm system, closed G#, foot to B (sounding E below middle C). Post and rod. Mark Maximum: ABELARDO ALBISI / (design) /...
    • Contributor: Abelardo Albisi
    • Date: 1910
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    Robert Gene Dutton Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; European Theater.
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    Miniature flask, CE 600-900
    • Contributor: Kislak, Jay I.
    • Date: 0600-01-01

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    Saw รป (two-string fiddle) Musical instruments from Thailand. Title devised by cataloger. The material described in this catalog record is located in the Music Division, Library of Congress. Gift; King Bhumipol of Thailand during a visit to the Library of Congress on June 29, 1960; 19600629.

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    Flute in C, DCM 0891 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Cocus, silver-plated keys, ivory ferrules, metal-lined head. 4 sections, tuning slide in head. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, pewter plug over square metal plates for C#, C. Pin in block. Mark Maximum: 862 / C. PELOUBET / NEW-YORK Mark Additional: Mark on upper body. Mark on head, barrel, lower: C. PELOUBET / NEW-YORK. Foot: C. PELOUBET /...
    • Contributor: Chabrier Peloubet
    • Date: 1829
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    George Jefferson Sornborger Collection Warrant Officer, Merchant Marine, World War, 1939-1945.
    • Contributor: Cooper, Doug - Sornborger, George Jefferson - Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (Rsvp) of Sacramento, CA - G. Hoberman / L. Rogaski
    • Date: 1945
    • Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:58:38.0
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    Charles Eugene Huck Collection Petty Officer Third Class, Navy, Cold War - Great Lakes, Illinois; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Mediterranean Sea.
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    Charles William Hudson Collection Lieutenant, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; Guam (Mariana Islands). Lieutenant, Navy, Korean War, 1950-1953.
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    Flute in C, DCM 1050 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Stained boxwood, bone cap and ferrules, brass keys. 4 sections. Key Holes System: 6 keys, shallow saltspoon, pin in block. Mark Additional: Mark on head: D Condition: Upper foot joint ferrule cracked. Provenance: L. K. Watson, York, Pennsylvania, June 1931. Location: L02. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous
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    Flute in C, DCM 0629 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Boxwood, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism and ferrules, silver keys. 4 sections, tuning slide in head. Key Holes System: 11 keys, round flat flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximum: * / Klein. // Coฬˆlln. / (three 6-petalled flowers) Mark Additional: Mark on all sections and barrel. Provenance: Andreฬ Rossignol, Paris, 28 July 1926. Location: J02. Record created through migration...
    • Contributor: Klein
    • Date: 1779
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    Whistle, DCM 0840 Instrument type: Whistle Materials: Bamboo, quill. DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago" [and] "Of natural bamboo, with one natural septum at 'sound hole.' Piece of quill, flattened and bound over the holes to form wind way. No finger holes, no 'plug' in upper end. Lower end at place of a knot, which is cut away. With a natural 'fluting' whole length." Mark Maximum: No mark....
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago)
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    Flute in C, DCM 1582 The embouchure hole is unusually rectangular for this sort of head joint, likely not original. Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Ebony(?), silver keys, ivory cork-setting mechanism, ferrules, cap (missing). 4 sections. This instrument may have had 3 interchangable upper joints; nos. 4, 5, 6. The instrument has no. 6, likely the shortest. Key Holes System: 6 keys, originally pewter plugs over metal-lined holes,...
    • Contributor: Potter
    • Date: 1785
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    Harvey D. Vershum, Sr. Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp Blanding, Florida; European Theater; Stalag XIII-C, Germany.
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    Flute in B-flat, DCM 0303 Band flute. Instrument type: Flute in B-flat Materials: Boxwood, brass key. 3 sections; head, upper body for left hand, and lower body with integral foot. Key Holes System: 1 key, round flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: FIRTH, SON & Cยฐ / N-YORK / C Mark Additional: Mark on head. Mark on body joints: FIRTH, SON & Cยฐ / N-YORK Condition: Lower body joint...
    • Contributor: Firth, Son & Co
    • Date: 1863
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    Richard E. Merwin Collection Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - South Pacific; Treasure Island, California.
    • Contributor: Merwin, Sally Ann - Merwin, Richard E.
    • Date: 1944
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    Nay (End-Blown Flute), DCM 1576 Instrument type: Nay (End-Blown Flute) Materials: Cane. Key Holes System: 1/6 holes, burned in. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: M. El Mahdi, Tunisia, 27 Nov. 1959. Location: D01. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous
    • Date: 19??
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    Vertical Whistle Flute, DCM 1462 Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Materials: Dark charcoal, nearly black clay. Large bore terminated with a bell flare, and has 4 crudely perforated fingerholes, and is decorated above each fingerhole with a high relief design. Key Holes System: 0/4 holes. Mark Maximum: Mexico Mark Additional: Mark inside bell. Provenance: Source not known. Location: Case_02. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Anonymous
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    Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute), DCM 0238 The flue cover is, for this plain instrument, unusually ornate, carved, possibly to resemble a rattlesnake's rattle, integral mouthpipe. DCM ledger: "Pilager Tribe of Minnesota." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Materials: Unidentified wood, flue cover of soapstone, pipestone(?). Carved possibly in the shape of rattlesnake rattle. A short length of unidentified hard wood, bored out in one piece with 6 nearly equidistant...
    • Contributor: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pilager)
    • Date: 18??
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    Flute in C, DCM 1248 Instrument type: Flute in C Materials: Rosewood, engraved silver lip plate ferrule, and silver ferrules. Silver ring keys with raised silver-lined holes. Metal-lined head and sockets. 3 sections, tuning slide in head, conical. Key Holes System: Boehm system, Dorus-G#, DCM ledger: "single thumb key hole with Briccialdi lever." Mark Maximum: (lyre) / A.G. BADGER & Cยฐ / NEW-YORK / (lyre) Mark Additional: Mark on...
    • Contributor: Alfred G. Badger
    • Date: 1860
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    Philip Francis DuPage Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Vietnam; Cambodia; Hong Kong.
    • Contributor: Dupage, Philip Francis - Furtah, Sheila M. - Rick Furtah - Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Raspa, Richard
    • Date: 1969
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    William J. Ward Collection Lieutenant, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Norfolk, Virginia; San Diego, California.
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    Costa Rican three-legged vessel, undated
    • Contributor: Kislak, Jay I.

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    Julius Jay Gross Collection Captain, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - St. Faith, England; European Theater.
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    Maynard Harry Sexton Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp McCain, Mississippi; Miami Beach, Florida: Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio; Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Belgium.
    • Contributor: Sexton, Maynard Harry - Herbert Hoover Presidential Library - Evans, Mary E. - Carstensen, Peg
    • Date: 1943