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[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0416]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul Haggard goes over every inch of the 14 ranks of pipes in the Kilgen pipe organ. If the needed $10,000 is raised, he'll get the instrument back in working order, a six-month project."
Date: September 14, 1976
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0419]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Haggard tests a response on the Kilgen organ console, a 40-year-old instrument still able to produce tones 'faster than a human hand,' says the organ architect engineer."
Date: November 8, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Usually, this four-manualed pipe organ is draped with a silver cover and left to stand unnoticed in the Civic Center Music Hall. Here, Civic Center employees Jim Brown, left, building maintenance supervisor, and Richard Charnay, stage manager, brush aside a bit of dust before covering the instrument back up again."
Date: June 17, 1976
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0418]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The talented hands of Ken Wright once coaxed lovely refrains from the Kilgen organ back in 1936. The pipe organ now needs to be refurbished."
Date: December 9, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0417]

Description: Caption: "Fourteen ranks of pipes must be refurbished before the Kilgen pipe organ's majestic sound can once again fill the Civic Center, as it did when Ken Wright played the organ for hours on end on WKY Radio in the 1930s. Lack of maintenance by the organ's owner, the City of Oklahoma City, has depleted its musical quality." A large number of organ pipes.
Date: June 17, 1976
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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