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rico43 · 11-10-2014, 02:51 PM

I have looked arout OOTP and have not seen a discussion board per se, but this was something I wanted some feedback from.
I read on Bob Lemke's blog that he had been made "custodian" of the McCarthy Collection of photos, thousands and thousands of perfect, non-Topps photos. I asked him about them in an email this past week, and he said that an advanced collector had acquired them and donated them to Cooperstown.
I think I actually screamed NOOOO!
Having required some images from the Joe Engel Collection, which was donated to the Hall in 1969-70, for my Arcadia book, I was only able to afford purchasing usage rights for nine photos, even with the Hall's special arrangement with Arcadia. Those images cost more than everything else I acquired to put the book together, even though they had not been touched by the Hall in all that time.
So my roundabout question is this: are the thousands of McCarthy images now lost to us, those who want to see them and possibly use them? Does anyone know if they are being catalogued and/or made available? If I am totally clueless about this, please let me know that, too.

11-10-2014, 02:51 PM	#23435
rico43 Banned Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Chattanooga and Internet Posts: 476 Infractions: 0/1 (4)	I have looked arout OOTP and have not seen a discussion board per se, but this was something I wanted some feedback from. I read on Bob Lemke's blog that he had been made "custodian" of the McCarthy Collection of photos, thousands and thousands of perfect, non-Topps photos. I asked him about them in an email this past week, and he said that an advanced collector had acquired them and donated them to Cooperstown. I think I actually screamed NOOOO! Having required some images from the Joe Engel Collection, which was donated to the Hall in 1969-70, for my Arcadia book, I was only able to afford purchasing usage rights for nine photos, even with the Hall's special arrangement with Arcadia. Those images cost more than everything else I acquired to put the book together, even though they had not been touched by the Hall in all that time. So my roundabout question is this: are the thousands of McCarthy images now lost to us, those who want to see them and possibly use them? Does anyone know if they are being catalogued and/or made available? If I am totally clueless about this, please let me know that, too.