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General Monon Discussions and Questions => Question and Answers (Q&A) => Topic started by: Sharon Eberhard on November 08, 2012, 03:17:52 pm
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I found out by reading today's Lafayette paper that Bill has taken 50 plastic totes to his mother's cousin and has sheduled an auction sale for Sunday November 18 at 11 am. The cousin is a professional auctioneer by the name of Larry Scherer and the sale will be at his auction house just outside of Oxford Indiana.
I was not able to locate the auction ad in the digital version of the JC but someone with more smarts than me may be able to do it.
Sharon
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Here is the listing.
Pete
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Is the Society going to bid on some of Cookie's stuff?
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We had no warning this was coming and have made no plans for anyone to attend on behalf of the society and bid.
So feel free to attend and bid as you desire.
Pete
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Anyone know if the photos listed are ones that are already on the society CDs?
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Heath, there may be a few that we don't have, but I doubt it. Cookie let us scan over 1,200 of his pictures several years ago, and we have them all available on six CD's. / Ron
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Ron,
Many years ago when I worked with Cookie, he had a few grocery sacks full of negatives. We had a deal where I would have 3 prints made, 1 for me and 2 for him. Most were taken by a company photographer. There were probably 100 prints that we had made. I have not seen what is on the CDs but, if there are over 1200 pix on the CDs, I doubt there are any new ones. Some of the ones I had made might be in the auction. I sat with Cookie many nights in his basement vault going through boxes and sacks of stuff and I dont remember there being many photos. Most of what we sorted was paper items.
Mark
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Through the years, for whatever reason, Cookie had about a half-dozen of us, unbeknown to each other, scanning the same sets of photos. No negatives, just photos. When he finally agreed to have some CD's put out, we had to cull all the duplicates, triplicates, sometimes even four or five of the same picture. Then we had to identify almost all the pictures because he had "saved" the images from the engineering department, but he hadn't "saved" the list that identified the locations. We finally narrowed the collection to 1,200 images, about 1,000 of which we were finally able to identify.
This whole project, which culminated in the six CD's we offer, took almost a year of hard work, and there's a whole list of dedicated people who need to be thanked, including but not limited to George Lortz, Max Foltz, Dave Ritenour, Joe Land, Tom Kepshire, Gene Remaly, Pete Pedigo, Steve Dolzall, no doubt you Mark, and several others whose names elude me right now. Cookie's name was on the CD's, because he "saved" the images, but they're available to everyone because of the hard work and dedication of those I mention above. / Ron
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Thanks for all your hard work in preserving that visual legacy, guys. Cookie's CD's are at the top of my [not allowed]mas list.
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Operators are standing by to help Jim...
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Ron,
I am not surprised that there was a group of us making scans for Cookie. I am also not surprised that we didnt know each other were making copies. As I am sure you know, if Cookie liked someone and trusted them, he could be very generous. He had a strict rule that we werent to share the stuff he gave us. It appears that he was right in trusting us. Thank you for the work you and others did to make the CDs possible.
Mark
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I second what Mark said. When I talked to Cookie about scanning his material, the deal was that I could (of course) keep the scans I made in return for sending him copies of the scans and the original photos or slides.
I personally believe that he was doing this because he knew I was interested in having the scans and felt he was offering this a friend.
George L.