Re: Eastman suicide
Albert Strauss (a.strauss@worldnet.att.net)
Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:30:48 GMT
At 07:15 PM 6/21/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Someone sent the following to my graphics group:
>
>>In 1927 George Eastman committed suicide because he felt
>>that everything in photography had been invented.
>
>Is that true?
>
>-------------------------
NO! George Eastman committed suicide (by gun to head) on March 14, 1932,
after leaving most of his wealth to the University of Rochester.
The note he left read "My work is done, why wait"
Had he been trying to perfect gum printing instead of s/g he would probably
still be around.
Al