Fiddler Jep Bisbee with Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra, circa 1925
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Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--and the automaker's admiration soon made the elderly Paris, Michigan fiddler a celebrity. Ford met Bisbee in 1923 while on a summer camping trip in northern Michigan. Bisbee at Ford's request, recorded for Edison Records a few months later. Bisbee (shown here with Ford's dance orchestra) won a statewide fiddling contest held in Detroit in January 1926.
Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--and the automaker's admiration soon made the elderly Paris, Michigan fiddler a celebrity. Ford met Bisbee in 1923 while on a summer camping trip in northern Michigan. Bisbee at Ford's request, recorded for Edison Records a few months later. Bisbee (shown here with Ford's dance orchestra) won a statewide fiddling contest held in Detroit in January 1926.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1925
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.O.247
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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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