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And here in lies a large problem with the present writers, compilers and collectors is the trading done by many fans years ago and there is no notes on the slides and or prints. Up until the late 80's there was no problems with copyrights but today we have problems. In the early 70's I use to get B&W prints of rail cars for a dime a piece. They are small contact prints with no notes as to who took the photos and where. About all I can do us credit them to my collection. I have had other people try and tell me they took some of the photos and I know they didn't as I already had them in my collection from buying them thru ads back in the 70's. I try now to keep better notes on the photos I take with the aid of the computer. Steve in SC On Friday, January 23, 2015 10:05 AM, "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Nolen and All:
Thanks for the kind remarks; I'll try to keep the stuff coming. As for O.H. Means, I really know very little about him except that he was, as you say, an early railfan photographer. He lived in Rock Island and photographed regularly there and in Galesburg, but also as far south as Beardstown. He also made a trip or two out to Denver. The earliest photo I've seen credited to him is from 1913, making him a real contemporary of Otto Perry. I do have a 1906 photo of a 4-4-2 at Ottumwa that's credited to him, but it may be someone else's photo from Means' collection. But I haven't seen any Means photos later than the early 1930s. He did trade prints with Otto Perry, so the Denver Public Library has a large number of his prints in their Otto Perry trade file. And the Corbin collection has a print file dedicated to Means prints. Means also had a big collection of early Q photos he had acquired from others, many dating back to the 1860s-70s. That's all I know about him. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:28:47 -0500 Subject: RE: [CBQ] E-1s Hol, I've enjoyed all the E-1 discussion. It does bring to mind a question that has caused me minor interest for many years. Who was O.H. Means? He was obviously a very early railfan as I've seen several photos attributed to him over the years. Do you have any knowledge of him? Nolen Hope all this is of interest to at least some members of the group. Hol __._,_.___ Posted by: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net> __,_._,___ |