We recently had a person write in about an A. A. Forbes photo in their posession:
Dear Mr. Waag,
I came across your blog on A.A. Forbes. Just thought to let you know I have a Forbes photo of Matlock Lake in my office. If you ever need to copy it just let me know. I showed it to someone at the LA County Natural History Museum about 10 years ago and he liked it. I'm not trying to sell it, only want to let you know it exists.
Best wishes, A.P.
Our reply:
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. My A.A.Forbes project has a long way to go, but I’m still interested. For any original Forbes image, we are looking to obtain the following things:
- high quality scan of front and back
- “tape measure” dimension of both the image and the print (if they are different)
- provenance of the image
- location where it was taken and when
- description of the physical condition of the image
- description of the quality of the image, and image details as seen under a loupe.
Note that we are not looking to purchase Forbes images, but are looking to have them donated to the Eastern California Museum in Independence. Please keep that in mind. However, if the owner is not interested in having the image scanned, we might be interested in acquiring it from the owner. Thanks so much for sharing this image.
If you do not have experience with high quality reference scans, they can be obtained at most print shops at reasonable cost. If the charge to scan is reasonable and you are not inclined to pay for your image to live in perpetuity, we also may be willing to pay for the scan charge - please let us know.
—Tim and Brian
About Matlock Lake, California: Right off the bat, found a nice link to a trail going to Matlock Lake, which you can go to by clicking here. Here's a photo from the same vantage point which I stole off the CaliTrails web site.
Matlock Lake is in the Onion Valley area near Bishop, Calif. Above is a map I also borrowed from the CaliTrails web site. It shows Matlock Lake with the massive wall to the West of the lake that is featured in Forbes photo as well as the modern photo above. Looks like a great place to visit. In this case, the CaliTrails author did an overnight out-and-back backpack to Matlock Lake from a campground.
