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From: Paul Tupaczewski paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 11:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Missing Steamtown negatives?
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Hello all,

Having started looking through the negatives in the RR Museum of Pennsylvania collection, I came across the attached. It's obviously a William B Barry, Jr photo dated 6/20/14. Interestingly, the negative number is simply "904" - no preceding letter. I couldn't find anything matching this in the Steamtown database.

So... why no leading letter in the negative number? I suppose this is one of the "missing" negatives from the Steamtown collection?

Additionally, while going through the new Alvin Smith book, there is a photo enlargement of a Bunnell photo dated 4/17, "photo No. 4020" as noted in the caption. It's at Washington, NJ (natch), but none of the "4020" negatives in the Steamtown collection (C4020, X4020) match this photo. So:

* Is this missing from the Steamtown collection?
* What would the leading letter be in front of "4020"? Could the number be wrong?

Looking through my own photo collection, I found the image - it actually shows the Washington station's east end, and the photo in the book is cropped showing the freight house in the distance. But that photo (I don't have the location I got it from) is simply labeled "Alvin Smith collection." But it doesn't appear in the Steamtown catalog, so yet another missing negative?

Thanks,

- Paul

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