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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

In these cases, the university is the owner, I believe, unless the City
retained title to the PCP collection.  But the City wouldn't have anyone
around who would know, in all probability.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
Brashear
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:09 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!

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).
>>
>> 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