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

[Fred Schneider]

Especially if the owner is dead.


On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> 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.
> 
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