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Title: Los Altos Methodist Church organ, Long Beach
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The interior of the Los Altos Methodist Church at 5950 East Willow Street in Long Beach showing the pews, pulpit, and organ. The organ is the William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons tracker pipe organ, originally constructed around 1846, in Boston, for the Howard Street Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. This hand-pumped tracker-action organ was sent by ship around Cape Horn and was the first American-built organ to be found west of the Mississippi River. The organ was acquired by the church and installed in the sanctuary in 1977. It is Long Beach Historic Landmark no. 16.52.100 and is a registered landmark with the Organ Historical Society of America
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077174
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Churches
CARL0000080983
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112137
Subject: Los Altos Methodist Church (Long Beach, Calif.)
Church buildings--California--Long Beach
Methodist church buildings--California--Long Beach
Organ (Musical instrument)--California--Long Beach
Interiors--California--Long Beach
Simmons, William B. D
Long Beach (Calif.)

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