Largest bell in foundry / BL004069
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- Title
- Largest bell in foundry
- Date
- 1936 (ca.)
- Collection Title
- University of Michigan Photographs Vertical File
- Collection Creator
- Bentley Historical Library (collector)
- Folder / Container / Volume
- UBImusD13. Folder: Campus Buildings. Burton Memorial Tower and Charles Baird Carillon. no. 146
- Photographer / Artist
- Leicester Evening Mail
- Notes
- Albert Kahn Associates, architecture firm. Dedicated on December 4, 1936. Named for Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, University President from 1920-1925. The carillon in bell chamber was donated in 1935 by Charles Baird, a former athletic director and University graduate of the class of 1895.
- Collection of 53 bells cast by the J. H. Taylor Bell Foundry of Loughborough, England. Largest or Bourdon bell weighs more than 12 tons and has the pitch of E-flat below middle C. The smallest weighs 12 pounds and sounds G-sharp, four and 1/2 octaves above the Bourdon. (source: Encyclopedic Survey, p.1123)
- Subjects
- Baird Carillon (University of Michigan)
- Burton Tower (University of Michigan)
- Bells
- Foundries--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Interiors--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Universities & colleges--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Item Number
- BL004069
- Finding Aid
- umich-bhl-92147
- Source of Title
- supplied
- Scan Source
- 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 b/w photographic print
- Repository
- Bentley Historical Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2012-11-25 01:36:04
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- Image Size
- 4800 x 3904
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- BL004069
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl004069/bl004069
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