PROJECT STATUS Following is a list of archive assets and interviews secured for acquisition: 1. Access to the Austin Organs, Inc. factory in Hartford, CT to video tape organ building process. Access to company archives of letters, photographs, and blueprints. On-camera interview with Kimberlee Austin, Donald Austin and Victor Hoyt [completed 10/13/99]. 2. Interviews with Lawrence Schoenstein and Betty Lemare Biza [completed 8/16/99]. 3. Access to the Spreckles organ archives of photographs, blueprints, drawings, letters and other documents pertaining to that installation. Video camera tour of the Spreckles organ chambers. On camera interview with Bob Plimpton and Lyle Blackinton [completed 8/17/99]. 4. Access to rare 16mm film of people being rescued during the 1906 earthquake and fire, extensive rare footage of Market Street from a cable car cir. 1905. [Digi-Beta transfer 6/6/99]. 5. Access to Exposition Organ in Brooks Hall, San Francisco. Extensive footage of Exposition Organ in its current state and consultants inspecting the instrument [completed 2/23/00]. 6. Access to models, drawings and blueprints of downtown San Francisco and the proposed Music Concourse and Organ Pavilion. On-Camera interview with Boris Drumoff. 7. Access to Schoenstein firm archives containing letters, documents photographs, blueprints and drawings dating back to the early 1900s. On-camera interview with Jack Bethards. 8. Access to the Organ Historical Society archives of photographs, documents and recordings. 9. San Francisco Public Library History Center, Photograph Collection of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Civic Auditorium photos, 1906 Earthquake photos, P.P.I.E. photos. 10. Access to the private collection of rare photos of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, Exposition Organ cir. 1915, Edwin H. Lemare, Exposition Organ cir. 1960's, Loma Prieta earthquake damage, DAT recordings and video footage of the Exposition Organ at the Civic Auditorium and other extensive documents. On camera interview with Charles Swisher. 11. Access to the Moulin Archives of historic photographs and negatives of P.P.I.E. and the Exposition Organ. 12. Access to the private collection of photographs, books and ephemera belonging to organ historian Paul Motter.