[PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I concur with Herb regarding Blaine's writing ability.  He asked both Fred
> and me some time back to review his forthcoming Pittsburgh manuscript, and I
> can assure everyone that you'll want this book when it is published.
>
> What I think happened on the photo mis-identifications is this:  Blaine's
> youthful fantasy of being the "Pittsburgh Railways Company" probably
> resulted in a rubber stamp being made, along with the letterheads.  In turn
> the rubber stamp was likely used to indicate the source of the photos, which
> I believe were given to Mr. Palmer, whose friendship Blaine had.  They ended
> up in the PRC material that was ultimately deposited in Hillman Library, and
> were incompletely identified.  The photo information was likely supplied by
> university staff, who have a poor track record in interpreting things (and
> don't seem to like to be told what the facts are).

I've not had that issue. The issue I *have* had is they send caption
corrections off to
the owners of the images, if it's not the university archives... where
they invariably die.