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Empress Theatre - 2/ Kimball
Cordova, Alaska
Organ installation timeframe: 1919 -
 
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Click for a larger version of this image (56K) Lathrop Building, date unknown
 
The Empress Theatre opened in 1911. The theatre was constructed by Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop in a building that previously housed a clothing store.
 
A two-manual Kimball was installed in 1919. Current status unknown.
 
Similar Kimball unit organs were also installed in the Lathrop-owned Empress Theatres in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
 
Articles from The Diapason, 1919
 
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Ernest Krauter was organist at the Empress in 1926.
 
Click for a larger version of this image Performers on the Empress stage, c.1913
 
Click for a larger version of this image Performers on the Empress stage, c.1913
 
The Lathrop Building was destroyed by fire on October 10, 1951


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