Re: Re : Autochrome info request

[Halvor <halvorb@mac.com>]

on 31.05.02 05:03, Judy Seigel at jseigel@panix.com wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Halvor wrote:
>> Down a dark and dusty corridor on my school, they have small rooms for
>> teachers. To make accsess difficult there is big shelf's obstructing the
>> path. I noticed one of these shelf's have the whole collection of "History
>> of Photography".
> 
> Where is that school Halvor?  What a treasure... You're probably the only
> one will read it, and one day it will be missing & you'll discover they
> "deaccessioned" it... in a cardboard carton at the curb.  (Maybe you
> should deaccession it first?? I can't say how many books I have acquired
> by luck and money with "deaccessioned from ----- Library" stamped on the
> flyleaf.)
> 
> Meanwhile, for what it's worth, the NY Public library main branch has them
> too. You go through room 315 and keep going through a door at the end.
> That's the art room (or is these days)...  By some mixup I got the entire
> set, which compelled me to read until I had to depart for life support.
> Broke my heart to give them back.  (Interim report: Estelle Jussim is the
> best.)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Judy
> 

University of Chiba, sort of east side of Tokyo,

hmm, I am too honest or maybe the collection is a bit too big, am hovewer
considering buying a handheld scanner and take a weekend or two in that
corridor. There is a few more priceless items in those shelfs...

halvor