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

[Derrick Brashear]

Well, Blaine's shots were not PCP, for example. Carnegie Library shots
aren't the University's, either.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [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!
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> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> Especially if the owner is dead.
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> The images were contributed somehow, some organization owns them currently.
> that owner is not dead.
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>> 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.
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>>>> 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