Re: [CBQ] Re: 1956 Empties

[John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>]

Another source of digitized photos is the Western History Collection of the Denver Public Library.   The photos began with those of Otto Perry, but also include Robert Richardson, Dick Kindig, and numerous others.   Freight cars were rarely the subject of these photos.   You can search by locomotive number, i.e. CB&Q 5631, and date.   The library collection is divided into several categories, but the category most relevant for this search would be "CB&Q trains."   You can order photos from the collection, but they are good resolution and can be printed online for free.   The primary requirement for these photos is that they be credited to "Western History Collection, Denver Public Library."   Otto and others took thousands of photos, and most of them are digitized in the collection.   The photos which have been digitized are mostly Colorado photos, but others include railroads which operated into Colorado, such as CB&Q, in other states in which they operated.   I have utilized photos of the D&RGW from locations in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

- John Manion

  Denver, CO

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Phillips, III, J.A. <whstlpnk@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

 

Bill Barber wrote: ''Unfortunately, I don't know who took the photos that I have and I certainly do not have permission to use them or post them. I just wanted to share the rest of the story. I wonder if the photographer took any more photos on that day?''

More likely than not! I am not a numbers cruncher, but if you have a photo, and it also shows up on eBay, I would think the odds are pretty good that whomever was standing track side was a fan who was banging away to create extra shots for trading. If you can come up with a date and a location you have a better than average chance of figuring out who the fan was. From there you might put out a notice to the BRHS publication/Web site, the Lexington Group, the RLHS (especially the chapter covering the geographic area), and maybe throw in a regional YahooGroup for a little extra coverage (the Twin Cities Rails and Twin Ports Rails guys always seem to have a good answer for East End NP questions I don't have a clue about).

I'd also suggest the Ronald V Nixon collection at the Museum of the Rockies. Thousands of his images have been digitized, are easily searched, and RVN did a lot of trading and photographing away from his home turf.

As an aside to that, do list members have favorite Web sites for older fans whose collections have become parts of archives or institutions which can now be searched/surfed? Nixon contemporary Warren McGee's collection is now at the Montana State Historical Society, but they have not made great inroads into digitizing the images for the Web the way the Museum of the Rockies has. Another collection would be James M Fredrickson's, now appearing on the Web at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives Web site. Other suggestions?

Remember how much you had to spend for it,
John Phillips
Seattle

"I will put down the informal history of the shirt-sleeve multitude," says Inez Mischitz. "What they had to say about their jobs, love affairs, vittles, sprees, scrapes and and sorrows. The oral history is a great hodgepodge and kitchen midden of hearsay. A repository of jabber. An omnium-gatherum of bushwah, gab, palaver, hogwash, flap-doodle and malarkey. The fruit of more than 20,000 conversations. What people say is history, what we used to think was history, is only formal history, and largely false. I will put down the informal history or I will perish in the attempt."

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