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C. S. Haskell [Haskell Pipe Organ Manufacturing Co.] (1898 & 1905-09)

Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind [later, Overbrook School for the Blind]: Auditorium
6333 Malvern Avenue
Philadelphia: Overbrook, PA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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1903 - “Pupils Assembled in the Auditorium, 1903”. The photo appears in the Tracker, v 29 #4. The person at the podium is assumed to be Charles Haskell (Photograph from an archival source: Annual Report, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, 1905, Philadelphia, PA, submitted by Jeff Fowler/Jeff Fowler)

unknown, n.d. - Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind relocated in this Spanish Renaissance building designed by Cope & Stewardson, 1898-1899 (Photograph from an archival source: Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collection, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1905-12-21 - Stop List (Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind 1905 Annual Report/Jeff Fowler)

approx. 1903 - “Pupils Assembled in the Auditorium, 1903”. The person at the podium is assumed to be Charles Haskell | Photograph from an archival source: Annual Report, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, 1905, Philadelphia, PA. (The photo appears in the Tracker, v 29 #4. Submitted by Jeff Fowler/Jim Stettner)

Notes

2021-12-03 - 1898: Built by Charles S. Haskell, and appeared on an opus list published by the firm in *The Diapason*, January, 1909. 1905-09: Built by Charles E. Haskell, and appeared on an opus list published by the firm in *The Diapason*, January, 1909. Unknown what additional work the firm carried out after Charles S. Haskell died. Replaced in 1939 by Moller Opus 6724. -Paul R. Marchesano


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