What research is needed on the T206 set?

[ethicsprof]

glad that you're excited about this one. Type 1 photos for these cards would
be great fun to look at anyway!
47 means you just have 477 to go!
I know Scott F. has a section of his website dedicated to this work, too.
I suspect there may be others.


jantz,
thanks for the supportive words.
always great to hear from you.

all the best, bill and jantz
barry

[steve B]

There are a lot of things to look into. It all depends on what you're interested in.

Making some lists of the three (Maybe more) versions of both the 150's and 350's is one. Figuring out which cards share common traits, and what backs they have.

Studying the registration marks to maybe figure out how many instances of the same subject might have been on a sheet.

Finding solid but small differences between the 350 runs and the 450/460 runs of the card that are in both.

That's just a few examples.

Of course, if you find that sort of thing painfully dull and want no part of it.....I totally understand.

Steve B

[wolf441]

This is probably not possible, but what about tracking down lists of employees who worked at the various factories in 1909-1911? I doubt that any of the records survived and it's a shot in the dark, but I've never heard of someone attempting to go this route. Maybe even finding out who was in charge of printing/advertising at ALC. If we could ever get some definitive names, maybe we could track down families and see if they had keep any business correspondence, etc...

Just thinking out loud

[teetwoohsix]

Originally Posted by wolf441

This is probably not possible, but what about tracking down lists of employees who worked at the various factories in 1909-1911? I doubt that any of the records survived and it's a shot in the dark, but I've never heard of someone attempting to go this route. Maybe even finding out who was in charge of printing/advertising at ALC. If we could ever get some definitive names, maybe we could track down families and see if they had keep any business correspondence, etc...

Just thinking out loud

I think this is a great idea. Would probably be very difficult but I do think if there was a way to find more records, or employees (or family of employees who may have records and not realize the significance ), this could be extremely helpful.

One of the most difficult things to really get a definitive answer on seems to be the size of the sheet.......but thanks to some dedicated board members, I think, aside from discovering a long lost sheet - people like Chris and Erick are getting us closer to actually putting a virtual one together- like in that thread with the Lash's postcards.

Good luck Bill, it's hard finding out things others haven't already found out I literally tried for months- and really couldn't come up with anything new. The Library of Congress was very helpful- even they said if there were more records (like Steve said above) from the ALC it could answer a lot of questions. Maybe you could comb newspaper articles and make some discoveries.

Sincerely, Clayton

[ethicsprof]

I much appreciate your focus on looking for high quality matching photos.
I would think that this would open the path to identifying type one with the photographers responsible for them. This should be a fascinating and groundbreaking effort for the hobby. Your focus mentioned above is already a very,very
important step, I believe.

all the best, bill


barry