Guitar
Made by Vega

Carl wrote to his wife shortly after they married, “I forgot to tell you that…(we) now have a guitar and there will be songs warbled and melodies whistled to the low Mexican thrumming of Paula and Cully’s {nickname for Carl} new stringed instrument….”
Wood, metal, mahogany, ebony, walnut, tortoise, shell, ivory. L 99.7, W 39.3 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 3392