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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated October 17, 1961 partially reads, "One of the musical vestiges of early California today stands in a Burbank home--as melodious and attractive as it was more than 100 years ago. The antique--a rosewood piano--belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cutter...However, the piano came into the Cutter family in 1865, when Ephraim Pierce Cutter, Cutter's great-grandfather, married a young woman from San Francisco. The piano was brought around the Horn from Boston in a sailing vessel....When Mary wed Ephraim in 1865, the piano and the bride were both taken to Sonoma in a wagon. 'The piano remained in a ranch house until we shipped it down here,' Mrs. Cutter said."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Pianos Antiques--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Men--California--San Fernando Valley Songbooks--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Dwellings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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