Sesquicentennial Exposition
Broad Street and Packer Avenue
Philadelphia,
PA
19148 US
Grand Auditorium and Ballroom
Organ ID: 11964
Installed in the Grand Auditorium Building on the Sesquicentennial Fair Grounds, which seated 20,000.
Adjustable Swell shoe coupling.
Organ was purchased from Saul Freeman, Auctioneer upon dissolution fo the Sesquicentennial Exposition by Cyrus H. K. Curtis and donated to the University of Pennsylvania.
Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm.
Console and C. Walter Wallace, Organist: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Taken on 1926-08-24
Console in Auditorium Building at the Sesquicentennial, unidentified organist: Photograph from an archival source: Sesquicentennial Archives, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. 1926
Sesquicentennial ground map; Auditorium is No. 5 at the main entrance: Photograph by Paul R Marchesano. Taken on 1926-05-31