[rollei_list] Re: OT: eBay as History
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:40:12 -0400
Hi Eric,
> eBay is extremely useful as a SOURCE for historical data. Few sellors
> have the skills or motivation to doctor the images of what they
> display there. The descriptions/narratives are unreliable, but that is
> nothing new to historians... just about all narratives from all
> sources are.
>
> What can be very unreliable is the interpretation of that data in the
> hands of historians, few of which enter into their investigations with
> neutrality... they almost all have a position to prove or uphold and
> facts to spin spin spin...
%100 agreed. Anyone can write anything they want, true or not, but the
pictures are typically very good information.
Regards,
Austin
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