> Try to O. Winston Link Museum. Even though
> the gallery is not online there are other
> images throughout the site.

Oh really? Where?

Could someone provide active links that they actually know have Link photos?

mike211@yknet.ca

> Oh really? Where?

> Could someone provide active links that they
> actually know have Link photos?

Try this one, scroll down to the bottom there are some posters in very small size. There are also additional links at the very bottom of the page.

Ed

The Works of O. Winston Link
ff1044@aol.com

Gosh, Mike, click around a little more before giving up, fella. Try the following URLs from the Link museum site:

http://www.linkmuseum.org/1955.html
http://www.linkmuseum.org/1955-2.html
http://www.linkmuseum.org/1955-3.html
http://www.linkmuseum.org/1955-4.html
http://www.linkmuseum.org/1955-5.html

OK?

O. Winston Link Museum
eledbetter@rypn.org

> They wern't when he was working. They were
> not even published until the 1980's and not
> until the 1990's did they camand such
> prices.

*Errr, correction:
1) Norfolk & Western published many of his photos in a public-relations booklet, "Night Trick", during the late 1950s.

2) Link won a couple major photo contests with a couple of his earlier rail works, including a national award by Graflex (the 4x5 camera manufacturer) in the 1950s.

3) Jim Boyd, editor of "Railfan" Magazine, "discovered" Link during the 1970s, and published the first major article on Link and his work back in the mid-1970s--I'm thinking the summer or fall 1976 issue. Link was hired by Carstens to shoot what would be his last night photo, a shot of a Lehigh & Hudson River RR freight during the last week of pre-Conrail operations in late March 1976. This was the era when you could buy Link prints for a couple hundred dollars.

So it's not quite true to say he was "unknown" or "unpublished" until the 1980s.

LNER4472-NOSPAM-@bcpl.net

> OK?

yes...thanks

mike211@yknet.ca

While the gallery page(s) at the O. Wiston Link Museum website are not available many photos are available. Go through the biography pages about Mr. Link. Each of these pages has a seperate photo taken by Mr. Link to illustrate what is being told about him.

Brian Norden


bnorden49@earthlink.net

> So where can one see some of these Link
> photos on-line? I went to Coleman's website
> but the links to photos either don't work or
> don't go to Link photos.

you'll find Link photos at

Cherry Creek Cyclery

Graflex.org

You are quite correct. I recall the Railfan article now that you mention it. The 50's work, also including publication in Trains Magazine, should not be discounted. I must watch my adjectives.

The point I'm trying to make is that, by and large, his work was little known or at least not known to its full extent in the 50's-70's. The vast majority of images remained packed until the publication of his books in 1983, 87 and 95. It was the 1983 exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA that really got the ball rolling for Link. That is when exhibitions of his work began circulating through both railroad and art musuems across the country.


The Works of O. Winston Link
ebtrr@spikesys.com

> after her release from prison, she (and her
> new husband) attempted to profit from the
> remaining loot kept hidden from law
> enforcement.

Wasn't there another part to the story involving the new husband? I seem to recall the story saying that Mr. Link had hired the man to restore his steam locomotive to operation, and was paying him quite well, but he lied about the status of the locomotive, taking lots of Mr. Links money and eventually his wife. Or something like that.

Weird stuff and that woman deserves all, if not more of the jail time coming to her.

JimE

Jim's train page
jre/ans@accusort.com