Bill Monroe
Object Details
- Description
- The country music sound created by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys starting in 1938, would become a new style of country music named "bluegrass."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Horenstein, Henry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- negative
- 1973
- 2003
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.104
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.104
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- Associated Name
- Monroe, Bill
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Maryland, Callaway
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Cultures & Communities
- Photography
- Art
- Record ID
- nmah_1271274
- Usage
- CC0
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