Kathryn Whiteford Wheeler Collection

Collection — Container: ML404

Identifier: SpC-2012.3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Æolian-Skinner Remembered is the history of the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston through the correspondence of company and the reminiscences of officers and staff. This book will be of interest to organists and lovers of the organ and its music who want to know more about the history of this instrument. This book will also be of interest to to those who study business as the letters and reminiscences detail the rise and demise of a business that built one of America's premiere organs.

Dates

Created: 1996-1996
Other: Date acquired: 10/13/2011

Creator

Wheeler , Kathryn Whiteford (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Non-circulating

Extent

0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Book Æolian-Skinner Remembered: A History in Letters by Charles Callahan, Randall M. Egan, Publisher of Music, LTD., 1996.

Custodial History

Presented to the College President by Kathryn Whiteford Wheeler Wiley, Class of 1947, who received the book as a gift from Edgar Highberger, organist of the Greens First Prebyterian Church of Greensburg, PA.

Source of Acquisition

President's Office. Part of accession 2012.03.

Method of Acquisition

Transfer

Other Descriptive Information

Book is signed by author to Ed Highberger. The Whiteford Organ, Æolian-Skinner Opus 1312, in Baker memorial Chapel was dedicated on May 4, 1958 with a concert by Virgil Fox.