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Subject: [Leica] Vintage Wild West Pics
From: leowesson at charter.net (leowesson@charter.net)
Date: Thu Jun 3 12:26:20 2004

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/about/mission/

This is a great resource for western images and information.

Leo

> Is anyone an authority of original pics vintage American wild 
west 1870's to 90's?
> 
> I have a chance to buy up an original collection of about 400 
original negs,
> taken  primarily in the silver mine area of Nevada.
> 
> some of them may be unique as they document American Indian 
ways of life which
> have long disappeared.
> 
> pics taken by an unknown photographer, not a Gene Smith of his 
times.
> 
> questions arise to their value, and to their future home  -- I don't 
plan to be
> keeping them.
> are the Getty and Microsoft  the big buyers in this field?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> PS. on vintage pics that have never been published or 
copyrighted, I am correct in
> believing I can copyright them now?
> 
> 
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