Fiddler Jep Bisbee in Traverse City, Michigan, 1923
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Eighty-year-old Jep Bisbee, a northern Michigan fiddler, and his wife Sarah, left northern Michigan for Thomas Edison's New Jersey laboratory in November 1923. Henry Ford was much taken with Bisbee's playing and wanted Edison's company to record him. Ford even sent his personal railroad car to transport the Bisbees from Traverse City to New Jersey.
Eighty-year-old Jep Bisbee, a northern Michigan fiddler, and his wife Sarah, left northern Michigan for Thomas Edison's New Jersey laboratory in November 1923. Henry Ford was much taken with Bisbee's playing and wanted Edison's company to record him. Ford even sent his personal railroad car to transport the Bisbees from Traverse City to New Jersey.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1923
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.1319
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.25 in
Width: 6.25 in
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