A slight correction/confirmation. It looks like all of his Harrisburg photos were taken on February 1st, 1941, as were some photos from Pittsburgh. He couldn't possibly have spent too much time here. He was in Delaware the day before. The notes for one of the photos taken between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh mention a "Superhighway". He was probably traveling by car along the PA Turnpike.
Scott Loveless wrote: > This is looking north along 10th St. > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02174.jpg > > And this one is looking north along South Cameron. > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02175.jpg > > The notes for those photos indicate he shot them from "one of > Harrisburg's high bridges". The only existing bridge that he could have > possibly taken these from is on Mulberry St. There are some photos of > the camera equipment he used at > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/overview/cameraEquipSlide.jsp?page=1 > and it looks like he carried a 50 and a 135. It appears that the photo > of Cameron St. was probably taken with the 50, and the photo of 10th > with the 135. Near the top left of both photos, just beyond the stacks, > are two columns. These columns are at the west end of the bridge on > State St. The Pennsylvania Capitol building is just to the west of > their location. Ann and I did a little shooting under the State St. > bridge just after GFM last year. > > Just for giggles, I'm going to hypothesize that he traveled along > Mulberry, which turns north-west approaching the Capitol building, and > probably took these photos on the same day within a very short period of > time. This photo looks northwest along 4th to the Capitol. > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02176.jpg The > Alva restaurant is still there and is very popular. The local bike club > ends their Sunday morning rides at the Alva. 4th St. is still one-way, > in the same direction the photo indicates. The train station is one > block east and the Alva has entrances on both sides. > > This is fun! I'm going to get some K64 and try to reproduce these. > It'll be interesting to see the time lapse. > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
