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Steven Bartley on November 3rd, 2025:

from - York Gazette March 15, 1853 pg2
Byzantine style case 9ft tall x 7ft wide x 4-1/2 ft deep
One manual starting at C, 4-1/2 octaves, keys in ebony & ivory. Pedal keys one octave
stop list- Principal, Stop Diapason bass; Stop Diapason treble, Fifteenth, Bourdon
Case in the color of oak.

(This is the first organ by Pomplitz in Pennsylvania, so far found. His new organ work in Baltimore in 1852, with a similar instrument for the Chapel of the convent of St. Francis, Richmond St (now Read St)

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