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Banjo or string instrument from Latrobe's journal, February 1819

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English: New Orleans, 1819. Notebook of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), with illustration of string instrument played at Congo Square. Latrobe says the instrument was brought from Africa, and was being played by an old man of some 80 or 90 years.
Date February 1819
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s journal (Journal IV), page 32, February 16, 1819 to February 26, 1819

Repository H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Collection Number MS 2009, Resource ID 2243

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Author Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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