[AT] Titan tractor print

[Larry D Goss]

I've been chewing on the inside of my lips all afternoon and evening because 
of your email, John.  That is a nice print.  The image reminds me that I 
have a digitally restored photograph of three Titan's with plows attached 
and parked in front of the local IH dealership after field testing them in 
Posey county, Indiana.  The original photo was on the wall of the dealership 
and the owner loaned it to me to see what I could do with it.  So I did a 
high-resolution scan of the photo (out of its frame) and then tweaked the 
image to clean it up, bring back the brightness and contrast, and print it 
out at a larger size than the original.  I gave him back three or four good 
prints of it and a copy of the digital photo file.

I do this sort of thing regularly with the thousands of photos that I have 
custody of through genealogy work.  It really gets interesting when I see 
claims of ownership like the one that accompanies the Wisconsin History file 
that you listed.  I ran into a similar claim of ownership of historical 
photos in a library in Colorado -- not to be copied or modified, etc, etc, 
...  I recognized some of the photos in the library holdings as being 
identical to photos I have in my own collection.  The frustration level of 
the poor archivist at the library nearly reached the breaking point when she 
saw that I had a number of photos that were obviously identical to their 
holdings and that many of mine were in better condition than theirs.

The bottom line is that libraries and historical societies are going to have 
a difficult time trying to uphold their claimed ownership of items such as 
this while making them accessible to the public at the same time.  The 
philosophy of a great number of these organizations is that of protectionism 
rather than free access.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cullom" <jh_cullom at comcast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:16 PM
Subject: [AT] Titan tractor print


>I finally got around to having this old IH Titan advertizing print from 
>1919 professionally mounted
> so it'll be preserved. I found it rolled up in an old outbuilding on my 
> late grandfather's farm.
> Part of it was mouse eaten, but most was in good shape. I know there was a 
> Titan on the farm many
> years ago, so I surmised this poster came with the tractor, or was an ad 
> they got from the dealer.
> Here's a shot of it framed - 
> http://oldengine.org/members/jcullom/print.jpg. Here's a writeup on the
> print from the Wisconsin Historical Society -
> http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=3557&formatNumber=9999000314.
>
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