[PRCo] Re: Scanning Archives

[John Swindler]

Isn't that how some of this got started some 25 years ago???  
 
West Penn pictures identifed only as "main line between Greensburg and Uniontown".  And the rest is history, as they say???
 
(although the first photo id trip that I recall was Brownsville line)
 
Cheers
John
 
 

 
> From: trams2 at comcast.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Scanning Archives
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:31:09 -0400
> 
> That's because I take it seriously, and you know a lot of the stuff that I
> don't. Some places wouldn't even try.
> 
> The other problem is prints or negatives that aren't marked, even though we
> know full well what and where they are. A novice won't know...we'd have to
> spend countless hours writing it down before turning someone loose scanning.
> 
> The other option, which some would find abhorrent, is to pitch a lot of the
> apparently duplicative material to minimize the problem. I'm of a mixed
> mind on that subject...sometimes there's something valuable on the one you
> would logically throw away, but there are also way too many photos of some
> subjects. Fantrips come to mind as one source of that, yet once in a while
> someone pointed a camera 180 degrees from where everyone else was looking.
> 
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:08 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Scanning Archives
> 
> 
> And how many unidentified prints have you dumped on me in the last year and
> asked if I knew what they are? 
> 
> Sad thing about that is that this problem applies not just to the library
> but to training new operators. Those that museums got in the 1940s through
> the 1960s had some idea how to run a streetcar just by watching revenue
> operators in the streets; they also had mentors in the hobby even if some of
> them presented a distorted view of the industry. 
> 
> Today those people who come through the door often know as much about our
> business as a politician knows about global or national economics. 
> 
> 
> On May 16, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> 
> > Grants are pretty scarce right now. I'd want to know more about the 
> > partnering arrangement in any event.
> > 
> > One of my concerns in hiring staff to scan is that they don't know 
> > what they're looking at, which poses a big problem where images are 
> > not specifically identified. There has been much written on this site 
> > about flawed captions in the PCP material; I'd not want to see 
> > anything like that happen.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ed
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Ray
> > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 6:27 PM
> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > Subject: [PRCo] Scanning Archives
> > 
> > Just asking a question. Are grants available for the museum library? 
> > If yes can a grant be written for scanning archives and partnering 
> > with Historic Pittsburgh?
> > 
> > Ray
> > 
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