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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I have found the Culver stampings to generally be pretty irrelevant.
Most of their material looks to be culled from other sources.
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That has been my understanding as well: that Culver never employed photographers of their own but utilized images from other sources. Now that I think about it, that could be the reason they were not included in Fogel/Yee's book as any stamping by Culver would be secondary at best.
The one blurb relating to Culver is actually in the Bain's News Service section and says, "After Bain's death in 1944, the United States Library of Congress purchased the preponderance of his archives from Culver Pictures in New York (Culver is still in business today at their 150 West 22nd Street location in Manhattan). The Library's George Grantham Bain Collection consists of an estimated 40,000 glass plate negatives and 50,000 photographic prints. Culver's remaining Bain photos were used in publication until 1992, when they were "deaccessioned" from service. Many of these have since surfaced on the auction block, most notably in Christie's 1996 sale of the Baseball Magazine archives."