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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Fred Schneider
<fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> Especially if the owner is dead.

The images were contributed somehow, some organization owns them
currently. that owner is not dead.

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