H. Reid Photo Collection

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Norris,

You are correct. I also saw some of Reid's collection at Gaithersburg, and bought a very few items myself. There was no large supply of Virginian material or photos. 

The Old Dominion Chapter, NRHS, members, I understand, offered to help Mrs. Reid dispose of much of the collection. I have heard, naturally, that some of Reid's friends were offered items and , I assume photos, as well. So, if someone was able to keep the collection of photos/negatives together, they're not talking, which is their right. I can imagine that it would be a tremendously time consuming job to try to make a collection of that size available to the railfan public.

Jeff Sanders
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  Good evening,
        I certainly don't claim to be an expert on H. Reid. These are just some ramblings. Shortly after H. Reid passed away I was at two train shows. One was the Great Scale Model Train Show at Timonium, Md. and I believe the other one was either a railroadiana show in Timonium {Baltimore Transportation Show} or Gaithersburg. I remember young men selling off the remains of his personal collection. They told me that they were from the area where H. Reid lived. Maybe the NRHS group? I think that there were large framed "builders photos", one of which was a Virginian gondola. It seems that there were even artist prints of streamlined steam locos that never were built. I don't think they were Virginian prototypes. One may have been a Wabash loco. He appeared to be interested in railroads other than just the Virginian. They may have ended up at Roanoke Rails owned by Sam Putney at the time. Sam could correct me on that. H. Reid's personal railroadiana items were being sold. I remember buying a steel lock that belonged to him {Not VGN}. I had a Norfolk Southern? Prince book in my hand at the railroadiana show that I recall was signed by Richard Prince to H. Reid. The price was around $145.00. It was the end of the show and I didn't want to spend that much money. I didn't get the book and I wish that I did. I really don't recall many individual photos. I wonder if the Norfolk, Va.?? newspaper that he worked for would be a source. 
  Norris Deyerle 
  Lynchburg, Va.
    
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  > Subject: H. Reid Photo Collection
  > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:26:46 +0000
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  > There has been no answer to the question because, I believe, no one on this list knows the answer. Having authored two books which included a number of Reid photos, and having searched for others, I believe the answer is that there is no single source of his photographs; that parts of the collection which he had at his death are in several hands. At the same time, Reid traded slides and negatives with a number of people so that photos taken by Reid are found at shows and in other places, sometimes appropriately attributed to him and sometimes not.
  > 
  > Bill McClure
  > Richmond
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