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James B. Jamison View Extant Instruments View Instruments

Distinction:

Pacific coast, 1925-30; San Francisco, California, 1936; Los Gatos, California, 1930s; died 1959.
Classification: Employee or Independent Contractor

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October 30, 2004:

From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Representative of Estey Organ Co. of Brattleboro, Vermont, for Pacific coast, 1925-1930; representative of W. W. Kimball firm of Chicago, Illinois, in San Francisco, California, 1936; in Los Gatos, California, 1930s; representative and tonal advisor of Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford, Connecticut, 1934-1949; died 1959.

Sources:

  • The Bicentennial Tracker (Richmond, Va., The Organ Historical Society, 1976), 118.
  • The Diapason February 1936, 1.
  • Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 429
  • Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on August 24, 2019.

Database Specs:

  • 0 Organs
  • 0 Divisions
  • 0 Consoles

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