This shell of this drum was made by Henry Eisele, a drum maker in New York City from 1844 through 1919. He was the successor to another well-known maker, William Sempf, also from New York City. 
Sempf’s first listing as a drum maker in NYC directories (1) is in 1862-1863, first on Forsyth Street and then the next year at 211 Grand Street. The listings for Sempf are sometimes at 209 Grand and sometimes at 211 Grand, but these are alternate addresses for the same building. The listings for William Sempf continue until the directory of 1885-1886. According to Musical Instruments Makers of New York (2), Sempf partnered for a time with the musician Joseph Ottes (1864-1868) at the Grand Street location. 
William Eisele is first listed in the NYC directories in 1884-1885, at 211 Grand St. He continues to be listed as a drum maker at either 209 or 211 Grand until the address changes in the 1912-1913 directory to 1249 Lexington Avenue. The 1917 listing changes from “drums” to “musical instruments”, which continues through the 1918 directory. In addition to this drum we've listed for sale, we have another later Eisele rod drum here at our shop that had been missing many parts, and so it's been assembled with new, similar parts but not originals. The eagle art that is nearly worn off, however, is original to the drum. Note the label damage, indicating the drum was cut down to this depth at some point.
In 1919, it was reported in the publication Music Trades (3) that Henry Eisele sold his stock and machinery to Albert Houdlett & Sons of Brooklyn. However, he retained his “good will and position as a legitimate manufacturer” and said he intended to continue doing business from his home in Brooklyn, although “only in a small way”. The listings cease in 1920.
Albert Houdlett & Sons of Brooklyn are perhaps best known for their banjos, but we were more interested to find out, in "it's a small world" sort of way, that Friedrich Gretsch, the founder of the Gretsch Company, was employed at one time by Houdlett & Sons in Brooklyn, apprenticing there for a decade before opening his own shop in Brooklyn in 1883 (4). Houdlett & Sons were also a major customer of Maplecraft Mfg (now Cooperman), primarily banjo and tambourine shells, in the later 1920s.
(1) All the New York City Directories referenced are available at New York Public Library Digital Collections, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library.
(2) Groce, Nancy. Musical Instrument Makers of New York, A Directory of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Urban Craftsmen. Pendragon Press, 1991, p. 141
(3) Music Trades. United States, Music Trades Corporation, 1919, p.46
(4)The Fred Thread, https://www.gretsch.com/2021/04/the-fred-thread-four-gretsch-presidents-namedfred/.
