PlanPhilly reports that a strange provision in the release of historic Philadelphia area transit records to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from a private collector come with a strange provision:
A provision in the 2003 letter transferring control of the collection to the society from the Philadelphia Museum of History ― where it languished unprocessed for years ― requires that any prospective researchers “be told of the heroic efforts of Jeffrey Ray to save the collection from destruction and how he has been a ‘living saint’ for the last 13 years.”
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That cataloguing process is almost complete ― and a search function detailing the collection should be on the society’s website within a month, allowing researchers to easily browse through the holdings, which range from leather-bound 19th century accident reporters from a now-defunct streetcar operator to pictures of the Willow Grove amusement park, which was owned by the PTC.
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