A couple months ago, Bill Edgerton posted a notice [in 22.02.21 MMD]
about Harvey Roehl's slide show of "Spelling Errors and Amusing Signs".
Bill wrote:

  "Old timers will recall that Harvey Roehl ran the Vestal Press in [Vestal,] a suburb of Binghamton, New York, and he published many books on mechanical music, starting with Player Piano Treasury.

  "Harvey was also a collector of pictures of signs showing incorrect spellings and amusing word combination (Cemetery Entrance - No Exit).  His collection is several hundred 35-mm slides.

  "There is enough there for a small book which would be fun, even without the background information such as where each sign was located.  Or, perhaps you know someone who would arrange slide shows and preserve this piece of nostalgia in some meaningful way.

  "I founded and ran the Mechanical Music Library, International, now at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey. Harvey's collection of slides was given to the Library, but since they have nothing to do with mechanical music they are up for grabs."

About a dozen people responded to Bill's original offer but Bill didn't want to pick just one person so he decided to scan the slides and offer the full collection to whomever is interested. He'll send the original slides to "The Center for Technology and Innovation" in Binghamton, New York, where the rest of Harvey's personal documents are archived.

A few weeks ago, Bill sent the slides to me and I have finished scanning all 475 slides and transferred the JPEG images to a hard drive. So, I'm ready to distribute the collection to those who expressed interest.

Unfortunately, the e-mail addresses of several of the original responders have been lost. So, if you are interested in a scanned copy of the slides, please send your request directly to me even if you replied to Bill before, and I will arrange for you to get a copy.

Regards,

Craig Smith
Western New York
craigsmith@sprintmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

P.S.: Watch your speling. Prefrence will be given to those who don't make any errers.