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Photo Documentation (was War Emergency Hoppers)
Ben Hom <bhom3@...>
Ted Cullotta wrote:
"Many photographers may have photographed freight cars because of the shock value to that particular photographer, thereby making the extremely rare seem commonplace to subsequent would-be historians examining the photos. I'm sure that there are many instances (and I don't use this example literally, but rather illustratively) of a photographer snapping a picture of the one pickle car he's ever seen rather than the thousands of seemingly mundane hoppers that were always 'in the way' when he peered through his viewfinder." I like to think of this as the "Christine Syndrome" - a hundred years from now, researchers of the Rock Island will conclude that the RI commuter power pool consisted of Christines and E6s based on the number of photos in existence! Seriously, though, this underlines one of the few pitfalls of photographic documentation - the natural human desire of a photgrapher to record the unusual rather than the mundane. This makes all of that work spent with a magnifying glass over yard and whole train pictures important because it allows the researcher the ability to see the forest for the trees. My personal favorites are Jack Delano's color photos for the Office of War Information during WWII - whole yard photos in color documenting the variety of equipment at that time and (more importantly for those who DON'T model the 1940s) are a great reference for accurately weathering steam-era equipment. Of course, none of this is meant to discount the vital role of photos in research. Ben Hom
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Jeff Aley - GCD PE <jaley@...>
On Jan 24, 8:45pm, Ben Hom wrote:
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Photo Documentation (was War Emergency Hoppers) I like to think of this as the "Christine Syndrome" - a hundred yearsFYI: "Christine" was RI DL-109 #621. It was re-engined by EMD, so took on a unique appearance. That's why everyone photographed it. "Christine" refers to a famous person of the '50's who underwent a sex-change operation. My personal favorites areI was unable to find these at the Library of Congress website. (I did find a bunch of Mr. Delano's photos, however). What search URL is best to use? Thanks, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley, Development Engineer jaley@pcocd2.intel.com Graphics Components Division Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA (916) 356-3533
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Ted Culotta <ted@...>
Try http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsaquery.html
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You can then choose either color or b&w or both. Then enter search words like box car or yards, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Aley - GCD PE [mailto:jaley@pcocd2.intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:52 PM To: STMFC@egroups.com Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Photo Documentation (was War Emergency Hoppers) On Jan 24, 8:45pm, Ben Hom wrote: Subject: [STMFC] Re: Photo Documentation (was War Emergency Hoppers) I like to think of this as the "Christine Syndrome" - a hundred yearsFYI: "Christine" was RI DL-109 #621. It was re-engined by EMD, so took on a unique appearance. That's why everyone photographed it. "Christine" refers to a famous person of the '50's who underwent a sex-change operation. My personal favorites areI was unable to find these at the Library of Congress website. (I did find a bunch of Mr. Delano's photos, however). What search URL is best to use? Thanks, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley, Development Engineer jaley@pcocd2.intel.com Graphics Components Division Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA (916) 356-3533 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@egroups.com
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