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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

If Blaine's photos came in with the actual PRCo material and are classified
as such at Hillman, they would be owned by the university. 

-----Original Message-----
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 11:51 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Left turn Smithfield to 6th!

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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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!
>
> 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:
>>
>>> 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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