[PRCo] Re: GETTA LOADA THIS!! GUY WANTS $9 FOR THIS GARBAGE!

[Fred Schneider]

The first one is crap.

Items 2 and 3  were probably the 4x5 negatives that were produced by Frank Dodge under the name Industrial Photo Service in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Frank, in the late
1950s, got into General Electric's archive in Schenectady and made copy negatives of anytbing he felt was good ... maybe not everything but a lot of good stuff including a
tremendous amount of material on the P&B and PHB&NC as well as Erie Railways, Buffalo and Erie, C&LE, etc.  Then he next made film positives from the original copy negatives.  And
then from each positive he could make any number of new negatives.  Frank did a rather commendable job of whatever he touched.

When Dodge became sick late in life, he sold of the negatives to a friend in Boston, who in turn sold most everything but some New England items to Donald Duke and Bill Middleton.
The positives for the two you want to sell are in Duke's office in Alhambra, CA.

I've seen a absolutely huge (maybe 16x20 or larger) print of the Meadville scene in the stairway to Chick Siebert's basement in Camp Hill.  I have a print from a good copy
negative.  One if the best early views if you are into Meadville.

Have no idea about the source of the LVT box motor.  The back that it is on 4x5 and appears fairly late (they didn't train box motors until about 1950 or back in the 1930s) suggests
that it may also be something that Frank Dodge was involved with.  Dodge took some of his own material (including Pittsburgh and West Penn) in 4x5.

John F Bromley wrote:

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2155640000&category=1445
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> This guy regularly asks $7-8 for 616 curly contacts.  Rip-offs galore.  And occasionally someone will even bid!  Desperate people.
>
> On the other hand, ol' JFB is offering four negatives (among many others) of Pennsylvania interest - copies made by someone and acquired in a collection but they;re good copies.
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=130&item=2155638193  $4.00 start
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=130&item=2155624229  $4.00 start
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